Chairgate

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It all started with the Bondage Chair by Allen Jones.

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Which chair had to be remade by Bjarne Melgaard.

Last year the virtual world exploded when Russian socialite, fashionista and art collector Dasha Zhukova (married to Roman Abramowich) was pictured on Bjarne Melgaard’s version for an interview with Russian buro 24/7/. It was published on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. which was wideley misunderstood and critisized on the internet. See for instance the Hollywood Reporter.

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According to Art Info:

Melgaard and his dealer, Gavin Brown, are taking a different tack. In a statement sent to ARTINFO today, the pair called the photo of Zhukova “extraordinary” and said they “applaud both the sitter and the seated.” The duo goes on to say, “To fault the sitter, now in the age of the Anthroposcene, in the midst of extraordinary and REAL obscenities that threaten our actual existence, reflects a civilization that is not dying but already dead.”

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The Urban wrote about a photoshoot for the Sir NY spring collection with an answer to the Melgaard chair.

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And Pierluigi Vecchi linked me to a male white and male black models photo as an answer.
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Finally hmvm mentioned the Proportion London with Rick Owens male model submitting himself as a model for a chair. This may close the (chair)gate…

Update

Not entirely. As I discovered this comical cartoon by Dutch Cartoonist Ruben Oppenheimer:
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Putin seated on Rutte, the Dutch prime minister. “Citius Altius Fortius” is Latin for “Faster, Higher, Stronger”.

Tree Hugging Chairs

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Found these Tree Hugging chairs on the www. No source.
The story

These chairs were laid out for a wedding in 1939 in Poland. The wedding was abandoned, and so were the chairs due to the German invasion. They were found again after the war with the trees growing through them. Every year they are repainted.

To me it sounds like an urban legend…

Chair Installation by Panamarenko

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The M HKA or Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, Belgium, features a retrospect of Panamarenko, a Belgian Artist from Antwerp. There I found this chair installation.

George Segal: Girl on a Chair, 1970

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George Segal: Girl on a Chair, 1970

For sale at Phillips on December 12, 2013:

Wall-hanging multiple, comprising white plaster sculpture and red painted chair, contained within black painted lumbar-wood box,

91 x 61 x 30 cm (35 7/8 x 24 x 11 3/4 in.)

with incised signature and numbered ‘AP 11/30’ on silver plaque on the reverse (an artist’s proof, the edition was 150), published by Editions Alecto Ltd., London, in excellent condition.
Estimate £4,000 – 6,000

Segal’s Girl on a Chair was his first multiple. It was an experimental piece made whilst he was working on a series of sculptures of figures observed through doorways. The multiple is designed to hang on the wall but could also be shown on top of the original wooden crate.

Via Phillips

Stool Installation

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886-three legged wooden stools made by traditional craftsmen are installed as an expansive rhizomatic structure which speaks of the increasing volumes of organisms in our world’s megacities.