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Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor use design as a critical, visual discourse to communicate ideas about design culture and contemporary society.

Chair Poetics: envisioning anonymity, an exhibition of prints and altered furniture, was shown at the England & Co gallery from 19 to 30 September 2009, timed to coincide with the London Design Festival. Ball and Naylor have reconfigured ordinary, everyday chairs to ask questions about our relationship to utility, familiarity, obsolescence, sustainability and value. A selection of works from the exhibition are shown on these pages, including Anatomy Collection, a series of stacking/linking constructions, and Chair Archive, a group of encased, previously discarded chairs, ambiguously inter-playing container and content.

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Constructions & mixed media   

Chair Archive Full case, 3/4 2008-09
Image size 25.6 x 19 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archive Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Archive Full case, 3 view 2008-09
Image size 17.6 x 45.2 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm  
Archival inkjet print
Archive Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Archive Leg case, 3 view 2008-09
Image size 17.6 x 45.2 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archive Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Archive Leg case, side 2008-09
Image size 26.6 x 19 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archive Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Archive Seatback, seat and back cases, side 2008-09
Image size 17.6 x 45.2 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm 
Archival inkjet print
Archive Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Archive Seat case and back case, group 2008-09
Image size 19.8 x 22.8 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archive Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Anatomy Opposed vertical cut, front 2008-09
Image size 25.6 x 19 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Anatomy Opposed vertical cut, 3 view 2008-09
Image size 17.6 x 45.2 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Anatomy Opposed and offset vertical cuts, group 2008-09
Image size 25.8 x 19 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Anatomy 2 stack vertical and horizontal cuts, front side 2008-09
Image size 27 x 21.6 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Anatomy 4 stack horizontal cut, 3 view 2008-09
Image size 17.6 x 45.2 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Anatomy Quarters, 4 rows, front 2008-09
Image size 19.8 x 46.4 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 30

Chair Anatomy 4 quarters, front 2008-09
Image size 30.4 x 22 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 30

Chair Anatomy Offset vertical, 3/4 front back 2008-09
Image size 19 x 29.2 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 20

Chair Anatomy Offset vertical cut, front 2008-09
Image size 22.8 x 28 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Anatomy Collection series
Edition of 20

Archaeology Polypropagation 2005
Image size 39.2 x 28.4 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archaeology Collection series
Edition 1 of 30

Archaeology 24 Star 2005
Image size 39.2 x 28.4 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archaeology Collection series
Edition 15 of 30

Archaeology Starbase 2005
Image size 39.2 x 28.4 cm; paper size 59.4 x 42 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archaeology Collection series
Edition 1 of 30

Archaeology Same difference 2005
Image size 28.4 x 39.2 cm; paper size 42 x 59.4 cm
Archival inkjet print
Archaeology Collection series
Edition 1 of 30