The chair guessing game.

While traveling in Paris earlier this month I swung by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to check out an exhibit curated by Christian Lacroix juxtaposing his couture creations with historical garments pulled from the museum’s archives.  And while that exhibit was stunning, colorful and minimal, it was the above exhibit of interiors and furniture that I most adored.  The museum collection of décor is broken up into periods, with the last 100 years separated by decade.  The image above is four floors high showing the ground floor dedicated to chairs from the '50s and '60s.  I stood there trying to names as many as I could. How many can you name?

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[Ann Cynthia Diamond]

We were there this fall, and were struck by how many of the supposedly iconic chairs we had never seen were designed by Frenchmen we had never heard of. There is also a quite amazing room at the top of the exhibit where you can sit in samples (anyone remember the hanging egg chairs of the 60's, for example)to watch a short film on (I think) the history of the chair.