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Playful design: Frank Gehry's Easy Edges chairs, first designed in the early 1970s, are made of corrugated cardboard.
Playful design: Frank Gehry's Easy Edges chairs, first designed in the early 1970s, are made of corrugated cardboard.

Playful design: Frank Gehry's Easy Edges chairs, first designed in the early 1970s, are made of corrugated cardboard.

Date8/28/1987
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0127615F
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