(ring, ring)
me: Hello?
DWR: Hi. This is Design Within Reach, the Chelsea studio. We need chair cookies.
me: …..?
DWR: You know, for our “Re-imagining the Chair” event. We need iconic chair cookies. 150 of them.
me: No problem.
DWR: And can they be iced? And at least some of them sparkly? It is Christmas, after all.
me: But of course. Now where did I put that exacto knife?

Students from the Illustration Department at Parsons were given Bellini chairs to, well, re-imagine. Bradford Shellhammer has a great photo set of the results of their creativity, the reception, and the cookies with their full-size compadres, here.

It was really fun to play with the silhouettes of different famous chair designs to see which would make the strongest shapes for the cookies. (No disrespect intended to messrs Jacobsen, Panton, Bellini and Vignelli by recreating them in two-dimensional cookie dough. I mean heck, Eames and Saarinen didn’t even make the cut.)