MODEL CHAIR

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Pictured: MODEL CHAIR

From: Igbo culture, Nigeria 🇳🇬

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Photo source: Bonhams

Source: “African Art in American Collections” by Warren Robbins and Nancy Nooter

Source notes: “Wood. Height 17 1/2in (44.4cm); Width 12 1/2in (31.7cm); Length 10 1/2in (26.7cm). Chairs in Africa, unlike stools, are thought to have been influenced by European models, though each group that makes chairs incorporates its own style elements…”

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Observations: synthesis without compromise, functional ornament, model making at smaller scales, storytelling embedded within the form