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Thin Black Lines (21400 mm chair) Chair

This is a chair. It was designed by nendo. It is dated 2010 and we acquired it in 2014. Its medium is bent and welded powder-coated steel rods. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Pared down to its basic components, this chair is a study in outline and form. The steel rods resemble sketched lines drawn in the air—simple graphic elements that create and define surface and volume. Like an optical illusion, the chair seems to change shape, depending on the viewer’s perspective.

This object was donated by nendo. It is credited Gift of nendo.

A two-tiered, linear, tubular metal and clear glass end table. The frame is formed from chromed, bent tubular metal and has an asymmetrical structure, with a square, clear glass top, and a rectangular, clear glass shelf, the curved edges of the base are joined by a straight chrome metal bar in the center.

End Table (USA)
bent chromed metal, glass.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2006-4-1

Wallet (Austria)
leather, gilding, silk.
Gift of Martha Landman.
1978-142-3

Cup And Saucer (Austria)
mold blown and flashed glass.
Museum purchase through bequest of Mary Hayward Weir and from Walter R.....
1999-25-1-a,b

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Two pages with a dark blue background appear to have been torn from a notebook and laid side-by-side. The sheet on the left is missing a section along the top left in the shape of a horizontal triangle. Though the two sheets are separated with coil-binding holes, the pattern is shared across both. Abstract continuous line design,which resemble elongated and repetitive letters 'M' and 'E' cluster in dark red, light blue, and orange sections, with the orange sections only on the right side. They appear as irregular clusters of square motifs formed from squashed wavy lines that are horizontal or vertical. A freeform light blue amoeba-like outline floats in the upper left and on top of the underlying pattern on the left page. On the out edges of both pages are 'trim', 'top', and 'join' indicators as well as the name of the wallpaper manufacturer in turquoise blue against a black border.

Sidewall - Sample, In Line
screen printed on paper.
Gift of Katzenbach and Warren, Inc..
1949-46-1-13

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 77 × 52 × 60 cm (30 5/16 × 20 1/2 × 23 5/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Thin Black Lines (21400 mm chair) Chair; Designed by nendo (Japan); Japan; bent and welded powder-coated steel rods; H x W x D: 77 × 52 × 60 cm (30 5/16 × 20 1/2 × 23 5/8 in.); Gift of nendo; 2014-36-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design: Recent Acquisitions.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/72TQ4/
Accession Number 2014-36-1
Object ID 68268439