Roy McMakin: When Is a Chair Not a Chair? Hardcover - 2010

Media reviews

"...At once an architect and a furniture designer, this monograph proves McMakin above all an artist....Highly recommended reading." ~Curated.com

"A dance between intellect and affect, his stunning 208-page monograph (with captivating contributions by is a Los Angeles-based artist, John Baldessari, Michael Darling, curator at the Seattle Art Museum, Lisa Eisner, photographer and cofounder of Greybull Press Michael, and Los Angeles–based writer and curator Ned Holte) captures Makin's attentiveness to the tempestuous nature of the human spirit-- in it's many forms." ~CuratedObject.us

"Roy McMakin: When Is a Chair Not a Chair asks the right question about the work of the 53-year-old artist, furniture designer and architect.  The answer: sometimes.  Mr. McMakin, who lives in Seattle, makes furniture that is comfortable, yet bedevils the eye." ~New York Times

"This lush volume of his work is an apt primer on the Seattle-based art and design world darling. Visual puns executed by seemingly simple plays on classic Shaker design, never-before-seen private installations, and commentary by artist John Baldessari and Seattle Art Museum curator Michael Darling round out the survey." ~OUT

"A retrospective of artist Roy Mcmakin's work, this book proves, without a doubt, that McMakin is one of the design geniuses of our time." ~Riviera

"A perfect beginning to an attractive book..." ~Interior Design