The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design
Saturday, Oct 17, 2020 — Sunday, Jan 03, 2021
This exhibition, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville and the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation, presents a survey of exceptional American chair design from the early 19th century to the present day. The chair is experienced not only as a functional item, but as sculptural in view — the chair as art. Each of the approximately 40 chairs in the exhibition are chosen for their beauty and historical context with important social, economic, political and cultural influences. Selections from the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation are joined by contemporary designs offering a stylistic journey in furniture with show-stoppers by John Henry Belter, George Hunzinger, Herter Brothers, Stickley Brothers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi and Frank Gehry among others.
“The Art of Seating” is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, in collaboration with the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C.
Virtual Lecture: Diane Jacobsen, “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design" from Georgia Museum of Art on Vimeo.
Curator
Ben Thompson, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville
Sponsors
Georgia Council for the Arts, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art
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