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What artists use chairs/furniture in their work?

I am a GCSE Art student and currently working on a still life based on chairs. For my coursework, I need to include an artist reference that relates to my still life. What artists have used chairs or furniture as a theme in their work, or in a series of pieces? Unfortunately it has to be a central theme in the piece. Are there any contemporary artists who have done a piece or series of pieces based on chairs or furniture?

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1. Hi! There are so many! Van Gogh - Chair http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG3862 More: http://cuetable.com/LaFortune/images/vincent-van-gogh-night-cafe.jpg http://www.germes-online.com/direct/dbimage/50176874/Van_Gogh_Reproduction_Oil_Painting.jpg Cezanne - The Card Players Degas (many paintings): Le Viol Portraits in an Office The Bellelli Family. Carl Larssen http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=carl+larsson&revid=450605382&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=1 J. S. Sargent (many) Matisse http://jpdubs.hautetfort.com/images/medium_matisse-desserterouge_1908_.2.jpg http://www.artistsguilds.com/art/Matisse.jpg Look at Vermeer: http://images.google.com/images?q=paintings+vermeer&um=1&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&sa=2 Bonnard, Vuillard, Van Eyck, Manet, Jan Steen, Andrew Wyeth, Frederick Frieseke...look: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/r/e/real_funny_lady/_4430842friesekepi1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://real-funny-lady.livejournal.com/tag/interiors&usg=__-jdnALvDHaR8p68UjotjreArhqg=&h=500&w=497&sz=148&hl=en&start=140&um=1&tbnid=4kKGeo5dKC3DSM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpaintings%2Bof%2Binteriors%26start%3D120%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DISO-8859-1 Sorry... I had to limit the links:)
2. Van Gogh did several paintings of his bedroom at Arles.