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Edward Keegan: Frank Lloyd Wright’s chairs get a thoughtful presentation in Wisconsin
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (421+ words) The exhibition was curated by Eric Vogel and Thomas Szolwinski with Jennifer Gray. Szolwinski, who is curator of architecture and design at MOWA, notes that while Wright has been the subject of dozens of exhibitions and more than a thousand books, this is the first exhibit exclusively devoted to his chairs and the first exhibit on the Wisconsin-born architect at the museum." There are two types of chairs: comfortable ones and the other kind. To their credit, the curators of the exhibit don't try to save the famed architect from himself, including Wright's frank admission: "Well, I don't design chairs to be comfortable to people; I design chairs to dignify man." Wright designed some 800 individual pieces of furniture, including 200 chairs, during his long career, but it's rare to come across his furniture outside the context of buildings he designed." For…...