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Chair

Washington, Italy

Chair

Chair, also known as the Big Chair, is a public artwork in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. The current structure is a 2006 aluminum replica of the original mahogany chair, with the original built in 1959 as an advertisement for Curtis Brothers Furniture which closed in

1973. It stands at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue (formerly Nichols Avenue) SE and V Street SE. Chair was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1994. It was once considered the world's largest chair, but has been overtaken by works like Broken Chair in Geneva and the temporary The Writer on Hampstead Heath in London.

Listen to the audio guide for Chair Free on WIP — starts by itself when you arrive, even with the screen off

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