About

2026BU MFA 2026 Exhibition
2025The Third Page
NEW MUSEUM
Aplomb Gallery
Book Dictionaries
BOOK:CHAIR
Multiple Formats
In Conversation
2024Masonry Type Threads
2023Fine Art

BOOK:CHAIR

Publication Design

BOOK:CHAIR is an independent, multi-format publication project. I designed and built a chair that functions both as a place to sit and as a book itself. The chair adopts familiar book elements, cover, spine, colophon, and chapters, while incorporating pockets that hold two traditionally formatted books.

The first is a research publication, documenting my inquiries into the book as a form and as a cultural, multifunctional object. The second, Publish Publication, presents firsthand references and documentation from the process of designing and constructing the chair.

Book (1) Research Research, Articles relating or adjacent to my topic
of exploritatory chair design.

Book (2) PublishPublish, my background, writing and process.

Book (3) MarkHow-to-guide for a viewer/sitter to create their own BOOK:Chair

MADISON HOPPLER 2026.