Creating a two-dimensional picture. Building a sculpture. Mixing colours virtually. Some chairs invite you to relax, others encourage conversation, and there is always that certain detestable chair that makes your back hurt. Because chairs are practically everywhere and used by practically everybody practically every day, they seemed the perfect object to demonstrate the impact and effect of style.
Style is the source of harmony, originality and the artist's particular message.
When designers design a chair, however, they must not only think of style, but also bear in mind such practical concerns as comfort and the physical characteristics of the people who will sit in it the most. Designing a chair. Matching chairs with styles. Sunday afternoons for creative hands Sunday afternoons, from 12.30 to 4.30 p.m., as part of the Esso-Sunday programme, an educator was on hand to welcome families and suggest activities. The Playful Art Room was an exhibition of the Education and Public Programmes Department of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.