Iridium Children’s Ballet Chair
This chair recalls the artist's experience as a mediocre teenage springboard diver whose coach pointedly sent him to dance class for training. The flexible dancers wearing toe shoes and leg warmers and fluidly arching their backs suggested forms for this chair design.
The original adult-scale version of this chair was created for Iridium Restaurant and Jazz Club, adjacent to New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
JMA imagined the restaurant to allow guests to accompany Clara through her Nutcracker dream. The architecture responded to Goethe's observation that "architecture is like frozen music". With so many musicians across the street, the interior architecture of Iridium was not-quite-frozen yet.
This Iridium Children’s Ballet Chair is scaled for young dancers...
PROCESS + MATERIALS
Hand-carved maple forms were cast in 93% recycled magnesium-aluminum alloy. After they were hand-polished, the components were welded together. The seat and back are upholstered in wool mohair. Made in Chicago.
DIMENSIONS
H 30 in. x W 19 in. x D 21 in.
H 76.2 cm x W 48.26 cm x D 53.34 cm
VARIATIONS
Please inquire for options currently available.
DATE OF DESIGN/MANUFACTURE
1992/2018
CREDITS
Chair portraits by Monica Kass Rogers. Watercolor chair study by Jordan Mozer. In Situ Iridium photo courtesy of Iridium.
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