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Eye On Design: Alan Siegel’s Tongue Chair


Photo By Gail

Furniture is sometimes at its best design-wise when it doesn’t  take itself too seriously. Case in point: Alan Siegel’s irreverent Tongue Chair, designed in 1981. With its seat transformed into a wide-open mouth and a bright pink tongue playfully poking out, the chair turns an everyday piece of furniture into a a little piece of surrealist theater. The chair’s ‘face illusion’ is completed by a back support that forms a human nose, while two eyes can be seen along the curved upper back and armrest that continues to form the chairs front legs. Continue reading Eye On Design: Alan Siegel’s Tongue Chair →

A Wedding Cake You Could Take Home: Claes Oldenburg’s Wedding Souvenir

claes oldenburg wedding souvenir photo by gail worley
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I’ve seen some pretty unusual works of art in my life, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like this: an entire wedding cake made out of pieces of a Claes Oldenburg sculpture.

I spotted this wonderful object while on a tour of  the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Beverly Hills, and admit it does look like an elaborate, slightly lumpy white wedding cake. Look closer though, and you can see the obvious seams. This isn’t one sculpture carved to look like a cake — it is a cake assembled from individual slices of one of Oldenburg’s most delightfully unconventional works, Wedding Souvenir, created in 1966.

And yes, there is an actual wedding story behind it.
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Eye On Design: Sculptural Mail Box at The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

hand delivered mail box photo by gail worley
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I would have to say that the sculptural design of this residential Mail Box is perfect if you want your cards and letters hand delivered! Continue reading Eye On Design: Sculptural Mail Box at The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation →