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Elephant Chair
This is a chair. It is dated 1967 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is molded polyester, bent metal. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
In the 1960s, some artists experimented with furniture design, blurring lines between the professions and questioning the functionalist aesthetics of existing forms. French painter Bernard Rancillac’s sculptural Elephant chair, whose seat is a single sheet of plastic, resembles the animal’s head (backrest), ears (armrests), and trunk (leg rest). The form may reflect Rancillac’s interest in cartoons that he expressed in paintings. This example was from the original limited edition production.
It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
- Panton Stacking Side Chair
- injection molded luran s thermoplastic.
- Gift of Robert Blaich.
- 1977-1-1
- Long Chair Chair
- birch (frame), birch-faced plywood (seat).
- Museum purchase through gift of George R. Kravis II, Anonymous Donor, and....
- 2013-17-1
- Chair, from Scrap Poly Pastel series
- polystyrene, polyurethane rubber.
- Courtesy of Max Lamb.
- 43.2015.2
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Print, Plate 55 from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Book of Grotesques)
- engraving on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
- 1957-162-38
- Drawing, Design for a Cream Pitcher
- colored pencil on black cardstock.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-113
Its dimensions are
Overall: 109 x 143 x 156.6 cm (42 15/16 in. x 56 5/16 in. x 5 ft. 1 5/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Elephant Chair; France; molded polyester, bent metal; Overall: 109 x 143 x 156.6 cm (42 15/16 in. x 56 5/16 in. x 5 ft. 1 5/8 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund; 1991-47-6-a,b
