Venus Chair

Description

Made from bent plywood, the Venus Chair looks, on first glance, as if it is the inner core of the Mars Chair. Further exploration, however, reveals that while its geometries were influenced by the Mars Chair, instead of mimicking the earlier design’s exact nature, its contoured form is a more streamlined rendition made from a simple, graceful assembly that is surprisingly lightweight.

Venus Chair

Konstantin Grcic

2006

Accession Number

201626

Medium

Laminated plywood, oak veneer, rubber

Dimensions

81.2 × 52.7 × 52.7 cm (32 × 20 3/4 × 20 3/4 in.)

Classification

design

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Luminaire