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Show :e5 Dreamer sofa is dressy, comfortable Eileen Gray sofa," she says, "but it dressy enough for a very formal room, yet it also embodies a conwas designed so long ago. I have a temporary acceptance that people problem with the proportions of come in all shapes, sizes, moods these pieces. I find them very tight; and attitudes. It accommodates a you have to sit so primly." variety of ways in which to be The intention, she says, was not comfortable. to make a piece of art furniture, but Its most notable distinction is to make a sofa that could stand that it's asymmetrical. Most sofas comfortably in the background in a have a seating depth, from edge to roomful of modern objects. The back cushion, of about 22 12 inchversion shown here love seat es. This one varies from 20 inches and chair costs about $2,700, at the narrow end to 26 inches at not including fabric. the wide end. The sectional version with matching chair allows a very The sofa's slightly irregular long seating area in shape also challenges normal room which people can speak to each arrangements, and creates new other without having to turn their opportunities. Robert Tiffany says heads 90 degrees. some owners place the front of the At the wide end there's a big sofa parallel to the wall and use the pillow that can, in a social situaspace behind for a lamp, while othtion, be placed to allow everyone ers use the slightly geomto maintain a normal upright pos- - etry as a way to subtly change the ture. When the company leaves, way people behave in the room. the sofa, which has very good "The sofa starts people thinking offers a range of options about how they would use it, and it for sitting and lounging. seems to unleash their creativity," it assume was Although many says Barbara. "It's the only piece originally intended for an NBA-size- d of seating we've done where buyhusband and his munchkin ers want to design their own ottoman." wife, that's not how it happened. Barbara Tiffany, who designed it with her partner and husband, For more information, contact: Robert, says she noticed that many Tiffany & Tiffany Designers people who have collections of Inc. Philadelphia, Pa., contemporary art or craft often By THOMAS HINE Knight-Ridd- Newspapers er Tools to do the job right The world is full of interesting chairs. And dull sofas. Chairs engage the imagination because they are individual. You iook at an empty chair and you can imagine the person who is going to fill it. A chair quite literally expresses the attitude of the person who sits in it. The sitter's posture implies a sense of the self and its relationship to other people. Sofas are more like a group picture. Rembrandt did them well, but usually several people in the picture look uncomfortable or out of place. The problem is not merely that sofas are collective, but that they are, in a sense, institutional. The .sofa js likely to be the largest and most expensive piece of1 furniture in the room, and it inevitably sets the tone for the rest. Usually, sofas are not merely overstuffed but stuffy. They are bastions of respectability. And when they are designed to express a more casual lifestyle, they tend to become pillow-strewsybaritic environments you wouldn't want to share with anyone you didn't know really well. A sofa called Dreamer, designed and manufactured by Tiffany & have classic modern furniture, Tiffany Designers Inc. of Philadeldesigned during the 1920s. phia, is interesting, I think. It's "There's nothing wrong with the ed . off-kilt- er back-suppor- n, DULLEY: (Continued from Page of 4) Glulams (glued laminated lumber) are made by bonding narrow pieces of lumber face to face. 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