Stacking chair

Danny Lane is one of a group of designers working in England whose innovative use of industrial materials and processes changed the course of contemporary furniture in the 1980s. Stacking Chair challenges popular assumptions about glass as a fragile and breakable material. The irregular edges of the chair seat and back suggest that layers of glass have been broken and haphazardly assembled. Yet the slabs of plate glass have been polished smooth and are securely fastened with steel rods. In this piece, fragile becomes solid, brutal becomes elegant, and industrial becomes domestic, if not portable—the chair weighs approximately 350 pounds.