Portrait Chairs

In 1993, when Thurgood Marshall died, I decided to make a chair honoring him.

That led to a series of commemorative chairs, with over 24 different people portrayed, each in an edition of 24. Many of these sold out, while others I only made a few of them. I made them as they were ordered- there are around 250 of them in total out in the world, made between 1993 and about 2005 or so.

They are histories and biographies and book reports, eulogies and gestures of respect, with no particular rhyme or reason as to who I decided to portray.