Why is this one chair EVERYWHERE?

There was nothing exceptional about eighteenth-century English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale . . . except for his brilliant (and simple) idea to publish his designs. With a little help from the growing British Empire, and the English lust for all things French, soon everyone knew his name.


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Special thanks to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, for the image of Robert Venturi's "Chippendale" chair, designed 1978-1984 by Robert Venturi. Philadelphia Museum of Art.