"Fourth Frond" Chair

Terence Main

1991 · Cast bronze · Modern and Contemporary Art

Terence Main's side chair evokes the skeletal structure common to plants and animals, the shape of its seat and back suggesting both leaf forms and rib cages. Every surface of the original chair—even the underside of its seat—had been carved before it was cast in bronze. The design was further accentuated through contrasting areas of polished and patinated bronze.

Artist

Terence Main

Date

1991

Medium

Cast bronze

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Loretta Michaelcheck, 1991