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Contents of Case 8: 10 objects

Contemporary Furniture

The first pieces of American modernist furniture to enter the collection, in the 1940s, were several early twentieth-century Arts and Crafts Movement chairs and a table by Gustav Stickley (1858–1942). It was the Museum’s 1986 Machine Age in America exhibition, however, that focused the collecting of contemporary American furniture, and many of the objects shown here were acquired for that exhibition and in its wake.

In addition to collecting “historic” objects from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Museum actively collects handmade and machine-made furniture in current production in an effort to keep the collection relevant and up-to-date. In fact, several midcentury objects came to the Museum as new office furniture and were accessioned, or incorporated, into the Decorative Arts collection when their importance was recognized with the passage of time.

Visible Storage: Case 8, Shelf A (Contemporary Furniture)
	1996.142.42	George Nelson "Coconut" Chair 1958 View object details...
Visible Storage: Case 8, Shelf B (Contemporary Furniture)
	76.99.2a-b	Russel Wright Armchair "Statton" Designed 1950; Manufactured ca. 1951 View object details...
Visible Storage: Case 8, Shelf C (Contemporary Furniture)
	83.108.1	Frank Gehry Side Chair, "Easy Edges" designed 1971; manufactured ca. 1982 View object details...
	83.108.2	Frank Gehry Stool, "Easy Edges" Designed 1971; Manufactured ca. 1982 View object details...
Visible Storage: Case 8, Shelf D (Contemporary Furniture)
	1993.71.1	Frank Gehry Chair, Power Play Designed 1991; Manufactured 1993 View object details...
	1993.71.2	Frank Gehry Ottomon, Power Play ca. 1991 View object details...
Visible Storage: Case 8, Shelf E (Contemporary Furniture)
	2008.88	Douglas Navarra Casa-1984 ca. 1984 View object details...
	2011.16.1	Jason Miller Duct Tape Chair 2006 View object details...
	2014.67.1	Jonathan Muecke Chair 2011 View object details...
Visible Storage: Case 8, Shelf F (Contemporary Furniture)
	2012.54	Vivian Beer "Current" Chair designed 2004, manufactured 2008 View object details...