Chair Share: Frank Giordano

The next installment of our Chair Share series features Frank Giordano’s lovely rustic-modern chair. A musician who played the hammered dulcimer for students at the Merce Cunningham Trust in New York City, Frank was inspired by instruments of world folk music when he conceived his chair. It is made of two bent birch plywood side panels with a slatted back and seat of reclaimed poplar, which can be strummed like a guitar just for fun. He also looked, as many architects do, to Charles and Ray Eames, who, in the 1940s, experimented with lumber-core plywood chairs that are coveted today.