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Built for a gallery exhibition called The Page, in which a reading area of various chairs and tables was needed to examine artists’ books, Myrkr is Old Norse for “darkness”. The lounge chair has no metal connections, but rather is made from a single laser-cut sheet of 12mm plywood and 144 dowels.
“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.”
- Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
Myrkr Chair, by Christopher Warren, for WORD [Warren Office for Research and Design]
The Page: An Interactive Exhibition of Artists’ Books, with specially designed chairs and reading area, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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