Nicole Wermers, Untitled Chairs (2014-15) is a series of unique dining chair and fur coat assemblages where the individual garments are seamlessly and permanently sewn around a chair’s form creating an entirely new one.
Monday’s Muse: Nicole Wermers, Untitled Chairs
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The installation is not about fashion. Rather it’s about appropriating space in an urban environment. “I wanted to take a fleeting observation that anyone can make every day in a restaurant – people put their jacket on the back of a chair in order to claim them, to turn public property into their own private space. I wanted to make this temporary occurrence a permanent feature of the chair.”
