| Are your kitchen chairs modern kitchen chairs? | | | | purpose. This is not just because the modern |
| Do you know to tell the difference? Aren't you | | | | art movement calls for this, it is because humans |
| pretty sure that all kitchen chairs are technically | | | | are creative! Do you use your coffee table to |
| considered modern? Is there a difference | | | | store blankets or games? Do you use |
| between modern chairs in your kitchen and | | | | bookcases as places to display your photos and |
| contemporary kitchen chairs? If there is, should | | | | plants? You have just helped your furniture |
| you choose one over the other? How do you | | | | become modern furniture! To consider your |
| make all of these decisions? When did choosing | | | | chairs modern kitchen chairs, they need to pull |
| kitchen chairs become so complicated? | | | | double or triple duty: do you use them as |
| For the purposes of this article, we will use the | | | | stepstools or as small tables? You have modern |
| terms modern and contemporary | | | | chairs in your kitchen! |
| interchangeably. While in terms of art history the | | | | Some people might scoff at the idea of a chair |
| two are very different, when looking at furniture, | | | | being a work of art but contemporary kitchen |
| there is not a lot of difference between the | | | | chairs are often exactly that. The sign of the |
| two. | | | | modern kitchen chair is that it does not have to |
| Modern art is made up of everything from the | | | | serve any real purpose for people to appreciate it |
| last of the impressionist paintings to Andy | | | | on an artistic level. Are your hairs artistic enough |
| Warhol's soup cans and everything that came | | | | to fulfill that requirement? Could you sit one of |
| between them. Something that got painted five | | | | your chairs in the living room, not put anything on |
| minutes ago could be considered modern. | | | | it and still have people admire it for its artistic |
| Thankfully, when it comes to figuring out whether | | | | merits? If so, then you have modern kitchen |
| your chairs are modern chairs in your kitchen. | | | | chairs! |
| There are just two criteria to keep in mind: are | | | | Believe it or not, once upon a time, furniture was |
| the chairs multi functional and are they artistic | | | | purely functional. Furniture designers did not |
| enough to be appreciated on their own while not | | | | make an effort to put any sort of artistic design |
| serving any practical purpose? What does that | | | | into their furniture-the furniture was strictly |
| mean? | | | | utilitarian. Today, however, modern kitchen |
| If the chairs in your kitchen can serve many | | | | chairs are works of art! Some people assume |
| purposes while still being chairs they are modern | | | | that modern chairs and contemporary chairs need |
| chairs. If the chairs can be used as works of | | | | to be painted in certain ways and be made from |
| art, they are modern/contemporary chairs. | | | | specific materials. |
| Most modern furniture serves more than one | | | | |