You'd be hard-pressed to find someone in the Apartment Therapy community who doesn't believe beautiful furniture is an art form. Yet while it normally fills your room, furniture can also fill your wall.
While I appreciate the beauty of an Eames lounge chair or an ornate Victorian sofa, they don't fit in with my current design aesthetic or budget. But as art, they can add a bit of unexpected to almost any space.
Do you own any furniture art?
Images: 1. Kelly Reemsten via Apartment Therapy; 2. Kenneth Eugene Peters; 20x200; 4. Etsy; 5. Etsy.
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Comments (9)
There has to be a really, really good reason, first to own such kind of art and second to actually display it next to the real thing it's portraying.
The only way it somewhat of works is for royal or presidential portraits.
I love mid century chairs. I live in a small apartment. How can I combine what I have and what I want? I hang them on the wall!
I purchased 2 frames that hold 5 pics a piece from guess where, scavanged the web for my favorite chairs, printed, framed and voila! Chairs on my wall! I did the same thing for Nelson clocks.
I have these great Eames chair coasters I got a MoMA: http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Eames%20Chair%20Coasters_10451_10001_11573
If we didn't use them all the time as coasters, I think they'd look great framed, too!
argh! Here's the link fixed...
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Eames%20Chair%20Coasters_10451_10001_11573</a href>
or not. i give up.
I *make* furniture art...
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Definitely wall art! Especially since I stumbled upon these two gorgeous Etsy-sellers:
Peylu paints a variety of old and modern furniture on clay! In the shop you can get prints of these.
Ohriginals makes ink and watercolour drawings of funny chairs.
My dear friend and fine artist Michael Pfleghaar
has done modern still life's for many years.
http://www.pfleghaar.com/genres/modern_1.html
i want to have beautiful chairs and paint paintings of my beautiful chairs