Roy McMakin: When Is a Chair Not a Chair?

by Lisa Eisner, Michael Ned Holte, John Baldessari, et al.

The long-anticipated comprehensive monograph on the art world's most admired designer. Roy McMakin is at once an artist, furniture designer, and architect. His seemingly simple chairs, tables, dressers, and other furniture pieces at first appear childlike and often whimsical; upon closer inspection these pieces evoke contemporary art references as well as domestic archetypal forms. Long a favorite among the art-world cognoscenti and tastemakers, McMakin's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847833577
• ISBN13: 9780847833573
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.0" x 12.8"