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    This workshop will focus on chair design led by John Lin and two others. It will explore the challenges of chair design including making chairs light, strong, and comfortable. The workshop will examine chairs designed by famous architects and designers like Mies van der Rohe, Ray and Charles Eames, Alvar Aalto, Hans Wegner, and their process of transforming traditional chair designs.

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    This workshop will focus on chair design led by John Lin and two others. It will explore the challenges of chair design including making chairs light, strong, and comfortable. The workshop will examine chairs designed by famous architects and designers like Mies van der Rohe, Ray and Charles Eames, Alvar Aalto, Hans Wegner, and their process of transforming traditional chair designs.

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    This workshop will focus on chair design led by John Lin and two others. It will explore the challenges of chair design including making chairs light, strong, and comfortable. The workshop will examine chairs designed by famous architects and designers like Mies van der Rohe, Ray and Charles Eames, Alvar Aalto, Hans Wegner, and their process of transforming traditional chair designs.

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    ARCHITECTS AND THEIR CHAIRS

    A WORKSHOP ON DESIGN, NOT JUST ARCHITECTURE

    Led by John Lin


    with Tianying Li & Haotian Zhang
    “The chair is a very difficult object.
    Everyone who has ever tried to make one knows that.
    There are endless possibilities and many problems –
    the chair has to be light,
    it has to be strong,
    it has to be comfortable.
    It is almost easier to build a skyscraper than a chair.”

    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


    Ray Eames drawing and photo for the Eames room at Alexander Girard’s 1949 Exhibition for Modern Living, Detroit.
    Bending the Aalto armchair curves. 1981.
    The transformation from
    China Chair to Wishbone
    Chair.

    Chinese Family Portrait. Collection of Hans J. Wegner.


    Details of the China Chair designed by Hans J. Wegner. A dismantled traditional Chinese mortise & tenon
    joint (Ba Wang Zhang).

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