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Pratt Chair

Pratt Chair
1984 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This chair is one of a series of nine, created by Pesce while teaching at the Pratt Institute, New York. Pesce injected urethane resin of incrementally increasing density into a single mould, resulting in a series of plastic forms. The difference in rigidity meant that the first was incapable of holding its own shape, to the last being so solid it was uncomfortable. The chair has an upredictable pattern of colour due to the injection process, and features images impressed into the mould's surface such as hands and a face. The colour, texture and ghostly images recalls the work of 1980s neo-Expressionists such as Julian Schnabel.



Object details

Categories
Object type
TitlePratt Chair (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Injection moulded urethane
Brief description
Pratt Chair, designed by Gaetano Pesce, 1984
Physical description
Polychrome urethane chair
Dimensions
  • Height: 87cm
  • Width: 52.1cm
  • Depth: 61cm
Style
Summary
This chair is one of a series of nine, created by Pesce while teaching at the Pratt Institute, New York. Pesce injected urethane resin of incrementally increasing density into a single mould, resulting in a series of plastic forms. The difference in rigidity meant that the first was incapable of holding its own shape, to the last being so solid it was uncomfortable. The chair has an upredictable pattern of colour due to the injection process, and features images impressed into the mould's surface such as hands and a face. The colour, texture and ghostly images recalls the work of 1980s neo-Expressionists such as Julian Schnabel.

Collection
Accession number
W.8-2011

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Record createdJuly 12, 2011
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