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Didn't Pound make a few chairs or tables, which his friends mocked to no end? This exhibition on modernist design will be in London for the next few months. The Guardian has first impressions from few celebrity intellectuals. Alain de Botton says of a teapot: "They loved to use the language of science to explain form, but it's semi-nonsense. The scientific requirements of tea-making do not necessarily lead to this shape." |
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he did. apparently he was very hard on furniture. i remember reading gertrude stein complaining somewhere that ezra was always breaking her chairs.
here is a picture with james joyce and ford maddox ford sitting in chairs EP built: link
Oh that's great. Thanks for the picture.
Simon Cutts broke a friend's chair just last week. It smashed right after he finished reading his last poem.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kpharris/110958525/