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Consumer's Rest Chair
This is a chair. It was designed by Stiletto Studios. It is dated ca. 1991 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is metal. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
The shopping cart is the icon of modern consumerism. This chair is made of the same bent, chromed wire used to make shopping carts around the world. In addition to playing with image and function, the chair offers an editorial comment on the role of consumerism in the 1980s, becoming a document of a decade. The chair was originally created as a unique work of art—it is with great irony that this highly-charged critique of consumerism has since become a consumer item itself. (August 14, 1991)
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled A Rest for the Weary Shopper?.
It is credited Museum purchase from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- Telescope Shopping Cart Drawing On Letterhead (USA)
- ink on paper.
- Telescoping Shopping Cart Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of....
- 14.2012.165
- Free Universal Construction Kit Construction Toy
- resin .
- Gift of 3D Systems.
- 2016-2-1-1/57
- Chair
- nickel-plated steel, aluminum.
- Courtesy of Thom Browne.
- 74.2015.2
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Wheelchair, Prime TC Transport
- steel, stainless steel, polypropylene, nylon, tpu.
- Lent by Stryker Medical.
- 53.2017.1
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 103.3 x 72 x 75 cm (40 11/16 x 28 3/8 x 29 1/2 in.)
Cite this object as
Consumer's Rest Chair; Designed by Stiletto Studios; Germany; metal; H x W x D: 103.3 x 72 x 75 cm (40 11/16 x 28 3/8 x 29 1/2 in.); Museum purchase from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1992-112-1
