Neutra’s Boomerang Chair: Fanfare for the Common Man

Boomerang Film: http://vimeo.com/100401679 and http://www.vs-neutra.com/# The Boomerang Chair, apparently, is a contradiction. Its playful shape, its materials of cloth and plywood, is not what we expect from a proper mid-century chair. And it certainly doesn’t fit our stereotype of Richard Neutra: a thoroughly pedigreed Modernism: sleek and coolly sophisticated. Shouldn’t his furniture be all chrome and … Continue reading