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1980s Postmodern Furniture: Heinz Landes' Solid Chair
Concrete and ten pieces of rebar
This Solid Chair is by Heinz H. Landes, a German Postmodern artist active in the 1980s. It's made of ten pieces of rebar and a block of concrete:
Chicago-based vintage design reseller Carefully Picked has a pair of the chairs for sale. Their video is below. Sitters may be surprised to feel that the rebar has some give:
These chairs would make an unpleasing gift for a construction worker who spends their days working these materials, but in 1986 it was suitably titillating for the gallery-going crowd.
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