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CO Bites: Pretty, Dangerous
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:13:25
Publish Date: 2024-07-31 18:05:19
Description:

In this week’s episode, host Ben Miller speaks with Sarah Margolis-Pineo about a turning chair prototype made by Brother William Henry Perkins of the Mount Lebanon Shaker community. But don’t sit in it. Looking like a Wendell Castle sculpture avant la lettre, its bird-bone-thin spindles and threaded metal swivel mechanism are too delicate to support the weight of a full-grown adult.

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