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Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
'Expo '67' Chair
Alternate Title:
Chaise 'Expo 67'
Image View:
Overall view in exhibit
Creator:
Christen Sorensen (Danish industrial designer, 1921-2015)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2012.01
Location Note:
National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest
GPS:
46.801106-71.225064
Date:
1967 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
chair (furniture form)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
fiberglass; chrome plated steel; plaid fabric
Technique:
construction (assembling); metalworking; molding (forming)
Measurements:
78 cm (height) x 77 cm (width) x 67 cm (depth)
Subjects:
advertising and industrial design; contemporary (1960 to present); decorative arts; Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec)
Description:
A graduate of Denmark’s famed Kunsthandwaerkerskol en, or School for the Arts and Crafts. Upon graduation, he opened his own studio; furniture designed and produced there were exhibited at Milan’s Triennale in 1955. Sorensen moved to Montreal the following year, working on major commercial and transportation projects, and eventually becoming involved in the design of three pavilions in the legendary Expo ’67. For Habitat at the expo he designed a few rooms of furniture (including this chair) produced by Ebena Lasalle, a firm he had previously managed. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Twelve
Identifier:
8A1-SOREN-EC-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

'Expo '67' Chair