The Perfect Chair - design drawing exhibition

The Perfect Chair

The seven decade career of Henry P. Glass represented with a major retrospective of his design drawings. Also historical European and American designs from the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries along with fantasy designs by contemporary Chicago architects.

The design for a chair has always been the truest test of an architect's skill. Human scale makes the chair a metaphor: architecture simplified to its most personal form. A chair can also embody the abstraction of a designer's innermost fantasies. ArchiTech Gallery has assembled a collection of original chair design drawings and watercolors from the past 150 years: Victorian designs by England's Owen Jones; Prairie styles from Wright's cabinetmaker, George M. Niedecken; an extensive exhibition of modernist works from the career of Henry P. Glass, a Chicago legend still designing in the 21st Century. Within this historical context, ArchiTech presents dreamlike drawings by contemporary architects who envision the perfect chair as a wearable suit of clothes, playground equipment or the place where God would sit. On Friday, February 16th, ArchiTech presents an exhibition and sale of this remarkable collection. The Perfect Chair will continue at ArchiTech through Saturday, April 21st. For more information and Images: Link to Henry Glass biography page Henry P. Glass "Cricket" for Brown Jordan watercolor on line print, 1977 11 x 9 in.	click on image to enlarge Henry P. Glass Convertible Deck Chair Pen and Watercolor, 1941 12 x 10 in. Henry P. Glass Glass Lounger Pencil on tracing paper, 1957 11 x 14 in. Leonid Osseny Chair From The Collection of Joe Favere Watercolor on paper, 1992 26 x 30 in.



New City review of The Perfect Chair.
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Chicago Tribune review of The Perfect Chair.
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UR Chicago Review of The Perfect Chair.
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