Designer Plastic Chairs - Sam Durant's Porcelain Garden Chair (GALLERY)

One of the icons of the U.S. maybe the cheap plastic chair. Criss-cross the U.S., perhaps the world, and you will run across white plastic chairs. A gallery in Tokyo is paying homage to the chair via Sam Durant’s porcelain chairs during Art Basel 2008. Using porcelain techniques originated by the Chinese, he is making the cheap, mass-produced chairs into one-off, handmade, art pieces. His statement is pretty clear: the global community will accept cheap Chinese goods without much question.

Cheap Plastic Armchairs - Front Design

Nobody knows who designed the first white plastic chair, but now they are practically everywhere. They have several good features - they’re light, cheap, stackable and easy to clean.  If you can look past the plastic, they are well designed in shape and style.  But their very blandness makes them oh… [More]