Ode Chair

A playful reinterpretation of bent tubular steel furniture, Ode, was designed by Nick Volpe of Temper and Grit. By adding one armrest, Volpe creates an asymmetrical chair that is related to, but removed from, the lineage of modernist furniture. The top of the chair is mirrored in the implied line of the Yellow-headed blackbird's back in Cecil’s “Museum Flora and Fauna” textile, a specimen that Cecil rendered from Carnegie Museum of Natural History's ornithology collection. Using elements from CMNH's collection and twentieth century design is an inspiring ode to the past and the present in this collaboration of a home good created right here in Pittsburgh!