SEATING ARRANGEMENTS 'SITTING PRETTY' EXHIBIT PAYS HOMAGE TO ARCHITECTURE OF CHAIRS.Byline: Nancy Dillon Staff Writer When it comes to icons of the 20th century, designer chairs aren't the first objects that spring to mind. But one look at a classic Eames lounge chair The Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman, correctly titled Eames Lounge (670) and Ottoman (671) were released in 1956 after years of development by designers Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company. It was the first chair the Eames designed for a high-end market. or the famous "Bocca" lips sofa and visions of smoke-filled, Eisenhower-era offices or a puckering Marilyn Monroe are hard to suppress. The hottest seats of the 20th century are the subject of a new exhibition starting Tuesday at Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was . Called "Sitting Pretty: Chairs of the Twentieth Century," the show features a high-back chair from Charles Rennie MacIntosh, the 1934 "airline" recliner from Kem Weber Kem Weber (1889-1963) was a furniture and industrial designer, an architect, art director, and a teacher. He was born Karl Emanuel Martin in Berlin, Germany. Weber trained as a cabinetmaker before enrolling at the School of Decorative Arts in Berlin in 1908, where he studied , an inlaid in·laid v. Past tense and past participle of inlay. adj. 1. Set into a surface in a decorative pattern: a mahogany dresser with an inlaid teak design. 2. Craftsman-style dining chair from Pasadena brothers Charles and Henry Greene Henry Greene may identify
LCW Low Conductivity Water LCW Local Closed World (information) LCW Loud, Confident and Wrong LCW LAN Connected Workstation (IPX/SPX) LCW Link Control Word " chair from Charles Eames Noun 1. Charles Eames - United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978) Eames . "Eames spent the better part of World War II developing molded plywood parts for the Defense Department, including a wooden leg splint splint, rigid or semiflexible device for the immobilization of displaced or fractured parts of the body. Most commonly employed for fractures of bones, a splint may be a first-aid measure that allows the patient to be moved without displacing the injured part, or it he designed for the Navy," said Peter Loughrey, director of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Modern Auctions. "As soon as the war ended, he took the molding techniques he developed and went into making chairs." Loughrey said the name LCW stands for "lounge chair wood" and echoes the straightforward, industrial naming schemes found in the military. "Chairs are so interesting. They take all different shapes, like Gerrit Rietveld's famous red and blue armchair. It looks like a Mondrian painting, only three-dimensional. And it looks uncomfortable, but it's not. It obviously took a lot of thought," said James Marrin, the gallery director at Valley College. Marrin contributed five chairs from his personal collection and acquired 31 more from private owners, galleries and auction houses including Loughrey's Los Angeles Modern Auctions (www.lamodern.com). Loughrey ended up loaning 16 chairs, include the Eames LCW, a $7,000 bent plywood chair from Gerald Summers and a Barcelona chair by the German architect Ludwig Mies van de Rohe. Mies caused a sensation, Loughrey said, when he unveiled two steel-framed Barcelona chairs as thrones for the king and queen of Spain at the 1929 World Arts Fair in Barcelona. "At the time, the Bauhaus devotion to steel was seen as unacceptable for home furnishing," Loughrey explained. "But Mies looked back into history and used an ancient, cantilevered style that shows up in Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics. He used the new material while paying homage to the ancient architects of the pyramids." An opening reception for "Sitting Pretty" is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday in the Art Gallery, north end of campus. Nancy Dillon (818) 713-3760 nancy.dillon@dailynews.com SITTING PRETTY: CHAIRS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Where: Los Angeles Valley College, 5800 Fulton Ave., Valley Glen. When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Tuesday through May 31. Admission: Free. Contact: (818) 778-5536. CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Grasshopper grasshopper, name applied to almost 9,000 different species of singing, jumping insects in two families of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers are long, slender, winged insects with powerful hind legs and strong mandibles, or mouthparts, adapted for chewing. chair, Eero Saarinen (2 -- color) Airline chair, Kem Weber (3 -- color) Wassily chair, Marcel Breuer (4 -- color) Bentwood chair, Michael Thonet (5 -- color) Blue armchair, Gerrit Rietveld (6 -- color) no caption (chairs) |
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