15May
These Are The 12 Most Iconic Chairs Of Perpetuity
A structural design change happened over night when Saarinen exposed his attempt at a single-material, single-form chair, which blew up the idea that a chair had to stand on four messages. He had ultimately solved his long desire to tidy up, as he called it, the "slum of legs." The result was legendary and also as wonderfully fluid and gorgeous as, well, a tulip. Well over a thousand [empty] welds are required for each item of Platner's labor-intensive and...