A Chair and You: Thierry Barbier-Mueller's Collection Staged by Robert Wilson
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A Chair and You documents Thierry Barbier-Mueller's chair collection as staged by theatre director Robert Wilson, edited by Zoé Barbier-Mueller and published by Lars Müller Publishers in 2026. The 216-page English hardcover uses exhibition photography and essays to treat the show as an opera in four acts, presenting chairs as sculptural presences rather than catalogue specimens. Texts by the collector, Wilson, Chantal Prod'Hom, and Charlotte Savolainen-Mailler describe how the collaboration was conceived.
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For furniture and product design students, the book is a study in how chairs are displayed, interpreted, and given narrative. It supports discussion of collecting, exhibition design, and the chair as an object of culture as well as use. On a reading list it sits with furniture history and with courses that ask how display changes the meaning of a designed object.
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