Queen Anne Side Chair in "Grandmother" Pattern

This flattened, humorous take on an 18th-century Queen Anne chair was designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown—Venturi having designed the Allen’s 1976 building addition. They adapted the chair’s pattern from an old tablecloth belonging to an associate’s grandmother. Venturi and Scott Brown’s eclectic revival of past styles is synonymous with postmodern design—in Venturi’s words, “richness and ambiguity over unity and clarity, contradiction and redundancy over harmony and simplicity.”