On the edge of your seat
Subtitle: chairs for the 21st century
Contributors: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780764351693
Subjects: Chairs; Furniture design; Catalogs; Exhibitions
Notes: Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition held at The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, Pa., May 6-July 23, 2016.

"With a three-century retrospective of Philadelphia chair design"--Dust jacket.

Artists include: Jennifer Anderson; Justin G. Bailey; Bob Brox; Stoel Burrowes; Carrie Compton (collaborting with Doug Jones); Sheri Crider (collaborating with Nina Dubois); Alicia Dietz; Nina Dubois collaborating with Sheri Crider); Jack R. Elliott; Dugan Essick; Adrian Ferrazzutti; Amy Forsyth; Jordan Gehman; Sophie Glenn; Tad Gloeckler; Doug Jones (collaborting with Carrie Compton); Lauren Kalman; Patrick Kana; David Knopp; Beth Krensky; Joseph G. La Macchia; Jack Larimore; Po Shun Leong; Laura Mays; Christine Mei; Taiji Miyasaka; Mira Nakashima; Christy Oates; Keunho Peter Park; Gord Peteran; Dean Pulver; Andrew Jay Rumpler; Fabiano Sarra; Matt Selnick; Mark Sfirri; Michaela Crie Stone; Joshua Torbick; Misha Volf; Takahiro Yoshino.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue / -- Roy Superior; title: On the edge of your seat: chairs for the 21st century  -- Richard R. Goldberg -- From The Furniture Society / -- Steffanie Dotson -- Introduction / -- Albert LeCoff with Tina C. LeCoff; title: Chairs and chairmaking in Philadelphia: a selective pictorial history  -- Joshua Lane; title: Slouching towards the apocalypse  -- Nora Atkinson; title: The elegance of brilliant intention  -- Jasper Brinton; title: Formal thoughts on sitting figures  -- Benjamin Colman; title: Some observations on twenty-first-century seating -- Susie Silbert.