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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 150   

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Robert Wilson: Chairs

Edited with text by Owen Laub. Text by Robert Wilson, Glenn Adamson, Trevor Fairbrother, Marie de Testa, Dung Ngo. Photographs by Martien Mulder.

Robert Wilson: Chairs

This unprecedented angle on the oeuvre of Robert Wilson reveals the importance of chair design for his cross-medium art

For American experimental theater stage director and playwright Robert Wilson (born 1941), theater is a totality of visual, textual and performative mediums. Wilson has incorporated furniture designs into his scenography since his earliest productions in the 1960s. "In almost all of my plays, there is a chair specially designed," he said. "Often, the chairs are much like an actor." Wilson’s chairs, with their frequently referential names (the Kafka Chair, Queen Victoria Chairs, the Mondrian Chair), assume expanded significance as the surviving artifacts of each performance.
The works in this publication range from 1969 to 2011, from the stainless steel mesh Parzival Sofa (1987) to the painted wood Clementine Hunter Rocker (2011). Wilson’s practice as a designer is illuminated by his practice as a collector, with pieces in materials ranging from wood, bronze and steel to taxidermied legs, tempered glass and neon. This publication includes several works never previously exhibited.


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Cristina Macaya

Few designers have elevated the chair to the artistic heights of Robert Wilson. The legendary theater director and artist has long considered furniture not just functional, but performative—an extension of space, movement, and meaning, particularly in his own productions.

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Robert Wilson: Chairs

ROBERT WILSON: CHAIRS

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Pub Date: 5/20/2025
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Robert Wilson: The Watermill Center

ROBERT WILSON: THE WATERMILL CENTER

Daco Verlag

ISBN: 9783871350542
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Pub Date: 1/31/2012
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