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Modern Chairs:1918-1970. The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London:\r\nThe seats need to be folded upwards first, but the chairs then make a compact horizontal stack which is completely stable, and which does not transfer any accumulation of weight from one end of the stack to the other. 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