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| The glass chair is displayed next to a Kem Webber dressing table and stool from 1934 |
THIS AMAZING PIECE OF AWESOMENESS. The chair, formed from a single piece of thick plate glass, was designed by (or attributed to) Louis Dierra and produced by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company for display in the Glass Center Pavilion at The Fair. Due to the impracticality of the medium, however, very few of these chairs were ever manufactured; in fact, it's not certain that any other than the Fair samples were. So few seem to exist today that I think it's likely that the ones you can see, at the Brooklyn and the Carnegie Museum of Art, are actual chairs from the Fair exhibit.
Still others are in private collections. One came up for auction at Phillips, de Pury & Company in 2003, and went for a little under 5 grand!
I would sell my mother to own one of these chairs!
I would sell my mother to own one of these chairs!
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