The Audrey Chair
Completed
2022
Medium
Ebonized White Oak, Silk, costume jewelry
Dimensions
18"X16"X32
Cost
$2,200
Description
The Audrey, part of the Static Adornment series, asks: Can you become someone else by changing what you wear? As a young girl, I was obsessed with My Fair Lady. Eliza Doolittle transforms from a so-called “guttersnipe” into a poised “lady”—not through inner change, but through altered speech and dress. That story shaped my early understanding of identity as something constructed. Clothes say so much about who we are and who we want to be. Drawing on the iconic and enduring look of the “little black dress” created by Hepburn and Givenchy in the 1960s, the chair becomes a tool for transformation. It isn’t just a place to sit—it’s a stage, a costume, a prompt for performance.
About this Artist
Annie Evelyn
Joy, laughter, and the unexpected are at the heart of Annie Evelyn’s work. Employing a range of materials (handmade paper flowers to Swarovski Crystals) and processes (tessellating metal pieces to create soft upholstered seating or embedding fresh cut flowers to add aroma), Evelyn uses furniture’s inherent interactive qualities and relationships to the human body to create new and surprising experiences. From 2014-2017 Evelyn was resident artist at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and in 2016 was awarded The John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship. She received both her BFA and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Evelyn has taught at RISD, California College of the Arts, Parsons – The New School, Haystack Mountain School, Penland School of Craft, and others. Her work has been featured on the cover of American Craft Magazine and published in Agata Toromanoff’s book, Impossible Design. She has been awarded Windgate Furniture…
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