DMTV Milkshake: A Mini-Tour of SFMOMA?s Newest Furniture Exhibition With Alexandra Loew
Interior architect Alexandra Loew takes us behind SFMOMA's "Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue? exhibition.
From Thomas Barger?s aptly named ?Butter Chair 2? to Germane Barnes? hair pick-inspired ?Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown (4),? the 45 works now on view at SFMOMA?s new furniture show are ? as the show?s title suggests ? a sculptural equivalent of an opinion piece, chairs with something important to say. ?Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue? understands that furniture designers ? and artists working with furniture ? are offering us more than a place to sit, but cogent positions on wealth, race, gender, comfort, and discomfort.
????????""""""""""""""""" Interior architect Alexandra Loew, founder of the Alexandra Loew Studio in Los Angeles, co-organized the exhibition with Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA?s Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design. She?s the star of this week?s Milkshake, talking to us from within the exhibition itself right before it opened to the public. Here, you?ll see a number of the pieces in the show, as well as the exhibition design, with its space-defining use of dramatic red carpet. ?Conversation Pieces? marks Loew?s entry into the world of exhibition design. We asked her for her secrets, and she demurred: ?I don?t have a lot of secrets, [since] this is my first exhibition design, bu...
From Thomas Barger?s aptly named ?Butter Chair 2? to Germane Barnes? hair pick-inspired ?Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown (4),? the 45 works now on view at SFMOMA?s new furniture show are ? as the show?s title suggests ? a sculptural equivalent of an opinion piece, chairs with something important to say. ?Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue? understands that furniture designers ? and artists working with furniture ? are offering us more than a place to sit, but cogent positions on wealth, race, gender, comfort, and discomfort.
????????""""""""""""""""" Interior architect Alexandra Loew, founder of the Alexandra Loew Studio in Los Angeles, co-organized the exhibition with Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA?s Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design. She?s the star of this week?s Milkshake, talking to us from within the exhibition itself right before it opened to the public. Here, you?ll see a number of the pieces in the show, as well as the exhibition design, with its space-defining use of dramatic red carpet. ?Conversation Pieces? marks Loew?s entry into the world of exhibition design. We asked her for her secrets, and she demurred: ?I don?t have a lot of secrets, [since] this is my first exhibition design, bu...
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