what happens when artists design furniture?

Paula Sweet

"Table with Water and Fish"

1981

Well,

shit happens when artists design furniture,

sometimes good, some times bad.

Sometimes so bad it is good!

I'm just going to focus on the first and last examples,

because we have all seen enough bad 

artist furniture....

Steven de Staebler

"Valentine Throne"

Stoneware, low fired clay

1974

I like this,

but come on, the stupid heart on the front?

Lose it Steven!

Robert Wilson

"Side Chair"

1982

Not you best work Roberto,

maybe your worst....

Masayuki Oda

"Bench"

1982

This thing is very David Lynch no?

Guy de Cointet

Set for "De Toute les Couleurs"

1982

I have no idea who "Gee" is, but I like him very

much.

Guy de Cointet

Set for "De Toute les Couleurs"

1982

More Guy, more power....

Peter Shire

"Henry"

1982

Peter Shire is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine.

Jame Hong

"Karnak"

1979

More please....

Anyone who showed at Art et Industry

in NYC

was sooo good.

(Well, for the most part.)

Scott Burton

"Storage Cubes 1"

1979-80

We have seen this before, but not in color.

Hum....

I like the his stone and concrete 

work much better....

John Chamberlain

"Thordis's Barge"

1980-81

So nice you get to see it twice.

Claes Oldenburg

"Room"

(detail)

1964

I need to find this in color! Too good and so

right now.

You loose a little of the mystery with the color pics,

but still nice....

Lucas Samaras

"Chair Transformation #12"

1969

Jesus, the decoration looks like one of greg.org's 

Google map "paintings"....

Here it is in color:

Thanks Whitney!

Joel Shapiro

"Untitled"

1973-74

I've decided to change my name to

Giuseppe Panza di Biumo.

He owns/owned the wee iron chair.

He's dead now though.

RIP GPdB!

One word:

POWER!

Robert Morris

"The Hearing"

1972

Robert Morris always scares me a bit.

Always seems like a spontaneous bout 

of fisting is about to break-out

and no one is going to be 

ready except for Robert.

Geeze, maybe my fears aren't so unfounded.....

I love his felt work though.

That would be a good post....

Salvador Dali

"Mae West's Lips Sofa"

1936

Our olde friend

Edward James 

owned this.

El Lissitzky

"Armchair"

1930

Sorry for the shitty picture.

But a Lucite chair by E.L.?

Gotta include that!

Aleksandr Rodchenko

"Workers' Club Presentation"

l'Exposition des Arts Décoratifs

Paris

1925

(Matt, I tried to include a link to your post on A.R. but 

Terapad was down...AGAIN!)

It's working again, finally.

Great link on the above by

RO/LU

here.

Salvador Dali

"Venus de Milo with Drawers"

1936

The drawer in the knee is the best!

Isamu Noguchi

"Bench"

Two Town Center

Costa Mesa 

1980

Not bad.

Richard Artschwager

"Chair and Table"

1980

I am a fan.

Richard Artschwager

"Bookcase lll"

1981

Very nice.

(Matt O, wink wink, nudge nudge....)

Richard Artschwager

"Chair"

1963

Formica chair? 1963? Nice.

Haim Steinbach

eat your heart out 

and please, 

update your website....

Wendell Castle

"Table with Cloth"

1980

Yawn....

Colette

(a.k.a. Justine)

"My House"

1980

This is more like it!

Can you see the oversized baby on the left under the lamp?

Creepy crazy sexy.

Yes, sexy.

Not the baby, the room....

Guy de Cointet

"Preparation Armchair"

1981

Get it? 

"GEE"! U R SO

FUNNEE!!!

(This is from the collection of 

Rene Ricard. 

That's pretty cool.

Wonder if he still has it?)

All of this fun

was provided by

Denise Domergue

(pictured, and may I say, she was/is(?) quite the looker.)

in her book from 

1984

"Artists Design Furniture"

Buy your copy now,

used starting at 

$3.61!

Such a deal!!!