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Kanutos Lounge Chairs by Victor Monserrate

Claire Sullivan - Thursday, July 23, 2009

 

 

 

Protégé and budding colleague of the Campana brothers, Victor Monserrate's striking Kanutos Lounge Chair series evoke something of the Campanas penchant for celebrating the mundane. The chairs consist of a simple low-slung lounger, seat and back consisting of multiple strands of woven wicker looped around the twin supports that form the base and upper frame and joined up high by a pair of non-descript wooden slats.

While not actually incorporating “found” objects like the Campanas Monserrate embraces similar ideas of reconfiguration; wild grasses gone to seed, the inverted over-used broom head, or the nasty hair of one of those horrible "Troll" dolls.

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