{"id":1824,"date":"2015-08-18T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:32:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T14:32:23","slug":"queen-anne-chair-by-robert-venturi-and-denise-scott-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/design-products\/queen-anne-chair-by-robert-venturi-and-denise-scott-brown","title":{"rendered":"Queen Anne chair by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown helped lead the charge for Postmodernism in America. Their Queen Anne chair \u2013 one of a series of flattened designs developed by the duo in the 1980s \u2013 injected humour into the furniture industry and is the next in our summer series on the controversial movement. (Tramadol<\/a>) <\/p>\n

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American architect Venturi became a key protagonist of Postmodernism after publishing his 1966 essay, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, and completing the Vanna Venturi house \u2013 credited as the first Postmodern building.<\/p>\n

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He married British architect and planner Denise Scott Brown in 1967, and the pair worked together to use their Postmodern principles to \u201cturn around the culture of architecture\u201d using a new way of looking a historical styles, according to Scott Brown.<\/p>\n

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Following a series of architecture projects, Venturi and Scott Brown decided to apply these ideas at a smaller scale. They created a range of chairs for Knoll in the early 1980s, at a time when Postmodernism was already filtering into design via the Memphis Group.<\/p>\n

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The duo\u2019s aim was to make furniture that could be easily and cheaply produced \u2013 aligning with the ideas of Modernism \u2013 while offering a new take on the decorative elements of historic designs.<\/p>\n

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Unlike many architects and designers associated with Postmodernism, Venturi and Scott Brown avidly wave the flag for the movement they have spent their careers exploring and refining.<\/p>\n