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Woven chair A chair woven from 1,600 feet of rope (Vermelha Chair, 1993).

Andrew Garn/Cooper-Hewitt Museum, SI

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What's Up

  • By Kenneth R. Fletcher
  • Smithsonian magazine, March 2008

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