Sam Maloof (1916-2009)

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Sam Maloof was one of America's most renowned contemporary furniture craftsman. Born in 1916 in Chino, California to Lebanese immigrants, Maloof was engaged in woodworking even as a child. He served in the U.S. Army beginning in 1941, and was one of 35,000 WWII troops sent to protect Alaska from Japan. After he left the army in 1945, he returned to Southern California and married Alfreda Louise Ward in June of 1948.

Frank Gehry (b. 1929)

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A graduate of the architecture program at the University of Southern California and a student of city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Frank O. Gehry established his own architecture practice in Los Angeles in 1962.

2012.29.A-E, Shiro Kuramata, "Miss Blanche" armchair, designed 1988, executed 1989

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With its “floating” artificial roses forever suspended in a body of acrylic resin, Shiro Kuramata’s Miss Blanche chair stands as a poetic realization of artifice and notions of eternal beauty, reflected in its title, taken from the character in Tennessee Williams’ play A

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994)

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Clement Greenberg was a highly influential American formalist critic, whose responses to abstract expressionism are thought to have directly influenced the development of post-painterly abstraction. According to Greenberg, the qualities that tended to characterize successful modernist artworks included abstraction and an attention to the formal qualities of the materials.

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

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Informed by the most important art movements in early 20th-century Europe, Alexander Calder's work has always been greatly inspired by the rhythms and movements of nature. Liberating sculpture from its pedestal, Calder revolutionized the medium and introduced motion into modern art.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Talo/The House

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"I meet people. One at a time they step inside me and live inside me. Some of them only for a moment, some stay. They set up wherever they want to and take my facial expressions or my leg's resting position and put their own in their place. They lie on my back and press their toes into my Achilles tendons. They appear in every pause and come out when I am in doubt and fill all the empty space.
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