I love this entire KIND of photograph -- when it's clearly a photograph of some real and normal, but still come across as more of an abstract composition. I think this would be wonderful really really large.

Is this big enough, Curtis?

He he he he he. I meant that if one put it into their apartment, I'd want it to be on the whole dang wall, or at least for it to be like 4 feet x 5 feet; not just an 8 x 10 or something. That is hilarious. However, that IS kind of wonderful.

- Curtis

Ohmygosh! Apartment Therapy shout-out!

Emilie-
VERY nice work.

Just wanted to share this with all the "Chair &" photo fans... Last week, I saw an exhibit at the Franz Meier Museum for Decorative Arts (in Mexico City) called "100 Years, 100 Chairs" (sponsored by Vitra). Part of the exhibition included a wall of Chair photos! I tried to photograph the wall to send in, but wasn't able to get a good image. [BTW, the show wasn't that exciting. It was like looking at the Taschen chair book in 3D. And most of the chairs were still in production; so it kind of felt like walking through a showroom.]

Yes, Enrique, there is such a thing as too representational. :-) Modern art creeps me out sometimes, man.

Very lovely photo. My brain's doing optical illusion stuff with it: seeing it for what it is, then other shapes pop up. So far it's adapted the shape of a molecular structure (specifically of caffeine, which I haven't had yet today, hurrr), then a solar system, and then just takes on an arachnid likeness.

Yay chair pics! Yay non-decaffeinated green tea!

Um, when the purpose of an exhibit is to show the design of an actual something, that doesn't count as "representational art" does it? Nor do I think it intends to...

Enrique--
I think you are one of the lucky ones, familiar with these chairs (and the Vitra collection) as well as high-end showrooms that intentionally blur the line between art and commerce, gallery and showroom. But I'm guessing the exhibit felt different to many others who aren't so versed/immersed. But this is always the problem when showcasing design that's still in production I suppose. The design section of MoMA looks more like a gift shop. And Moss looks more like a gallery. Go figure.

I was kidding, ptoo. Hence the smiley.

Love the photo. You should get more of this artist's work for your site.

Patrick. Point taken. You're right, I am lucky in that I've been able to see many of these chairs in the context of residential or commercial settings. But it's funny. "The chair" as a representational object in works of art feels more like "art", than the simple act of placing of an actual chair in a museum and calling it an exhibit. In the latter case, it feels like the chair as a utilitarian item (despite its design pedigree) is being fetishized (when placed in a museum context) and stripped of its utility. Kind of a weird paradox...

Also, I think but I think my beef with this particular exhibition was that the chairs were displayed simply in a row--as if they really were in a chair showroom. There was no attempt to contextualize each chair (or type of chair) in a visual setting. (In comparison, SF MoMA recently had an exhibition of Yves Behar's/fuseproject's industrial designs. But, in this exhibit, the museum made an effort to create a complete environment that mirrored Behar's design aesthetic. The result was that the lines between art, industrial design and commerce were more successfully blurred.) But I ramble...

I guess my real point is that the exhibition wasn't completely succesful for me because the presentation felt half-assed. "Here's a bunch of cool-looking chairs! 100 of them!"

And, getting back on topic, I do like the play of shadow and light in Emilie's photograph! A lot!

Rachael--
I must confess I missed the smiley the first time around. Maybe since the follow-up comment of "Modern art creeps me out sometimes, man." seemed to be along the same line of thinking.