Empire Chair Designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for Knoll, Usa, 1984.

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Vintage Empire chair in moulded plywood with laminated finish in the "Grandmother" pattern. Designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott … Read more Vintage Empire chair in moulded plywood with laminated finish in the "Grandmother" pattern. Designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for Knoll, USA, 1984.
Nienkamper (Toronto-based furniture manufacturer) held an event with Robert Venturi when these chairs were introduced. *See personal letter from Robert Venturi.

Venturi and Scott Brown reduced the elegant shape of an eighteenth-century Queen Anne chair to a flattened silhouette in bent plywood. They also designed the “Grandmother” pattern covering the form, which is based on a mass–produced floral tablecloth owned by the grandmother of one of their employees.

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