Ranked #67 in Miniatures
This focuses on the world of miniature chairs, deliberately nonfunctional objects made of such materials as ticket stubs, tin, raffia, gum wrappers, silk, wood, chrome, playing cards and key chains. The more than 275 chairs include the American Adirondack chair, an artist's chair with a painter's palette studded with glass beads, pearls, and crystals, and a gazebo chair. Creative reproductions include salesmen's samples, works by Mackintosh and Hoffman, the Breuer and Eames chairs and Tutankhamen's throne. less