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On Tuesday, superproducer/recording artist/Microsoft pitchman Pharrell opened his gallery show at the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris. It sounds pretty fancy!
For his first exhibition in a gallery, Pharrell has created some furniture with vibrant colors and slick surfaces. Two chairs will be exhibited: one with the legs of a lion and the second with human legs. They will be produced in different colors, with a choice for the seat in veal skin or leather. The shape of the seat is inspired by the “Eames chair”. Pharrell Williams diverted examples of classical furniture and update them into a sort of Hip-Hop style with his intense colors and sensual material. Pharrell Williams represents the aspiration of a new generation of Hip-Hop artists.
Wow! “Eames chair,” eh? Sign me up. I love the elegant simplicity of the Herman Miller Eames chairs.
I can’t wait to see Pharrell’s hip-hop-inspired version of that! Let’s take a look together!
Oh. Hmm. Call me a Negative Nancy, but I don’t think that the Eames’ had crude butt sex jokes in mind when they designed their chairs. Remember how, in Spinal Tap, when David St. Hubbins says “There’s a fine line between stupid and clever?” Everyone, meet stupid.
These chairs just walked in off the mean streets!
Charles and Ray Eames were not brothers; they were husband and wife.
@Merkin: You are totally right about that. I goofed. It’s funny…I labored under the mistaken assumption that they were brothers for years, and even when corrected I still call them the Eames Bros. Old habits…I’ll fix it!
Is it me or has KCRW’s Nic Harcourt been pimping “Herman Miller Eames Chairs in the new colour ‘True Black’” for like five years straight?
that is possibly the most vulgar thing I have ever seen.
there’s a certain picture of an eames chair that you forgot to post. it’s like i don’t even know you anymore.
I’m saying its really brilliant and “hip-hop” to take Eames’ pragmatic, like, form and function combined chair and turn it into a sex joke.
Mel Gibson is a frecking idiot… I used to think a lot about him as an actor but know I know better.