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Roy McMakin: When is a chair not a chair?

John Baldessari

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The long-anticipated comprehensive monograph on the art world’s most admired designer. Roy McMakin is at once an artist, furniture designer, and architect. His seemingly simple chairs, tables, dressers, and other furniture pieces at first appear childlike and often whimsical; upon closer inspection these pieces evoke contemporary art references as well as domestic archetypal forms. Long a favorite among the art-world cognoscenti and tastemakers, McMakin’s creations seamlessly merge grandma’s furniture with modern design and contemporary art. Each piece of furniture, interior, or art installation is infused with rigor as well as humor through tweaked proportions, innately sculptural forms, and craftsmanship of the highest order. This long-awaited volume collects McMakin’s most important creations and commissions from his thirty-year career.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli

Release: April 06, 2010

ISBN: 0847833577

ISBN 13: 9780847833573

Roy McMakin: When is a chair not a chair?

John Baldessari

4/5 ( ratings)

The long-anticipated comprehensive monograph on the art world’s most admired designer. Roy McMakin is at once an artist, furniture designer, and architect. His seemingly simple chairs, tables, dressers, and other furniture pieces at first appear childlike and often whimsical; upon closer inspection these pieces evoke contemporary art references as well as domestic archetypal forms. Long a favorite among the art-world cognoscenti and tastemakers, McMakin’s creations seamlessly merge grandma’s furniture with modern design and contemporary art. Each piece of furniture, interior, or art installation is infused with rigor as well as humor through tweaked proportions, innately sculptural forms, and craftsmanship of the highest order. This long-awaited volume collects McMakin’s most important creations and commissions from his thirty-year career.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli

Release: April 06, 2010

ISBN: 0847833577

ISBN 13: 9780847833573

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