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John Cederquist
2-D Thonet II, 1985
Baltic birch plywood, maple, embuia inlay, aniline dyes.
“The whole thing started with copying; and the first pieces, really, this whole 2D-3D thing was really interesting, and I didn’t want to design, so I was copying because I had no original source or original ideas related to it. I was just fascinated with being able to make these things look like they were two-dimensional. And people were amazed that you could take a picture of it, or you’d stand there and look at it. And as you walked around, the thing just started to warp and go crazy. I had people telling me they got sick walking around them and looking at them. So that’s what these were all about. These came out of Thonet’s catalog.”
Born in Altadena, California in 1946, John Cederquist is a woodworker and furniture maker whose trompe l’oeil artworks masterfully invert dimension. Cederquist received both his BFA (1969) and MA (1971) from California State University, Long Beach. After completing his studies, he maintained a studio practice for several years before accepting a position at Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo, California, in 1979. He became fascinated with perspective and dimension while teaching a design class and decided to meld trompe l’oeil illustration with furniture making.
| Dimensions | 15 × 18 × 35.75 in |
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| Date | 1985 |
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