Much Ado About The Racist Chair.

                                 
                                            Socialite Dasha Zhukova sitting on the chair 
The chair, designed by a Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard, was ‘an art work intended specifically as a commentary on gender and racial politics’, she claimed. Her somewhat self-serving explanation is not unlike that offered by the man on whose erotic furniture Melgaard based his chair.
It was in 1969 that British artist Allen Jones, a friend and contemporary of David Hockney at the Royal College of Art, designed a set of sculptures — a hat-stand, table and chair — all incorporating fibreglass models of submissive women (although they were white, not black) in skimpy leather outfits. The sculptures were cast in fibreglass by a company that produced mannequins for shop windows at a cost of £1,500 each.
  
They caused a storm of protest when they were first exhibited in 1970. Feminists, not surprisingly, took great exception to the way they objectified women, turning them into nothing more than a piece of furniture, something on which men could hang their hats or put their pint glass.  
  
I must confess they are artistic but demeaning. I feel theres a thin line between Art and Abuse......Just Saying
DM.