In 1951, while on tour of the Eames office, New Yorker artist Saul Steinberg picked up a brush and painted a naked woman on an Eames fiberglass arm chair. Steinberg, in effect, hacked the Eames chair, turning chair into art and cooling out the iconic look; he also broke a taboo against making any changes…
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Even though we’d recently imagined painting cloth-covered chairs and sofas, tablecloths, pilllows and curtains, we didn’t think about CLOTHES! This timely reminder came from Ebay, via An Ambitious Project Collapsing. Imagine the possibilities… Related posts: copy this: paint a pillow…sofa…bedspread…curtain… blank canvas furniture
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