Peter J. Ketchum
ARMSTUHL FOR VENUS D.M.
ARMSTUHL FOR VENUS D. M. is a sturdy wooden chair painted black with white lettering. It measures 36” high x 16” deep x 18” wide. The found three-dimensional arm is a 20 inch tall, hard plastic jeweler’s mannequin. It has a magnetic bottom and attaches to a metal mirror on the chair. If it must function as a chair and not a masterful sculptural work of art, the arm can be removed easily for emergency seating. And then just as easily snapped back.
ARMSTUHL is a masculine German noun meaning ARMCHAIR and, specifically, a chair with side supports for ones arms.
Austrian artist Otto Wagner (1841-1918) might have been the first person to formally use the word ARMSTUHL. In 1902 he named one of his chairs “Armstuhl.” By 1904 the Thonet brothers who made bent wood chairs and named them Armstuhls Nr. 81. In the 1950s Swiss artist Werner Blaser titled his chair The ARMSTUHL.
The chair is visually powerful in its stunning black and white simplicity. A useful sculpture for sitting, or just staring at. It is the fourth chair I created. The others are sold.
ARMSTUHL is a masculine German noun meaning ARMCHAIR and, specifically, a chair with side supports for ones arms.
Austrian artist Otto Wagner (1841-1918) might have been the first person to formally use the word ARMSTUHL. In 1902 he named one of his chairs “Armstuhl.” By 1904 the Thonet brothers who made bent wood chairs and named them Armstuhls Nr. 81. In the 1950s Swiss artist Werner Blaser titled his chair The ARMSTUHL.
The chair is visually powerful in its stunning black and white simplicity. A useful sculpture for sitting, or just staring at. It is the fourth chair I created. The others are sold.
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