Content preview from Deconstructing Product Design
Frank Gehry, 1972
- The Wiggle Chair, an homage to Reitveld’s Zig-Zag Chair, was developed as part of the Easy Edges series of furniture, the series name derived from its namesake material, Edge Board, a material comprised of glued layers of corrugated cardboard running in alternate directions. The abstract and sculptural series achieved critical success and Gehry received wide acclaim as a furniture designer. Frank Gehry comments: “The nice thing is you can just pick a piece off and throw it away if you don’t like it. I had made some chairs earlier, and they were shown at Bloomingdale’s. I made them out of paper. They achieved some kind of commercial success and it scared me, so I stopped them, because I wasn’t ready to be a ...
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