Jason Miller

Jason Miller, New Furniture and Other Projects, Milan, April 18-23, 2007

Barbara Bloemick, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton, and Matilda McQuaid, Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006, New York, 2006, p. 141 (for a variant “Duct Tape” chair)
New York Magazine, May 1, 2006, p. 64 (for a variant “Duct Tape” chair)
Robert Klanten, Sophie Lovell and Birga Meyer, Furnish:  Furniture and Interior Design for the 21^st Century, Berlin, 2007, p. 44 (for a variant “Duct Tape” chair)

Overall in excellent condition. The chair with very minor scattered surface scratches. The reverse of the chair with two nicks to the leather. Both are less than one inch. The leather itself is incredibly soft and supple. With a minor area of discoloration to the interior of the proper right arm, which is possibly inherent in the leather. A superb example of cutting edge contemporary design.
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"Don’t denigrate duct tape, think of it as a badge of honor.  It is a little piece of humanity.  It is not something we should hide.  It should not be banished.  After all, it’s there because of us."

-Jason Miller

 

Jason Miller designs furniture that highlights and proclaims intentional flaws.  A similar example of the “Duct Tape” chair is included in the Design Life Now exhibition currently on view at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.  This lot is a special edition displaying a variant tape configuration and is the first chair to be executed completely in leather.