Good evening. Tomorrow's Monday brings us fair weather in New York, but looms a bit heavier than usual. After much anticipation, we have the first debate of the 2016 American presidential election.

There is almost as much excitement as the first televised debate in 1960, between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Notice quietly behind the scenes sits Hans J. Wegner's PP Mobler 501 chair (1949), also known as the Round One, the Debate Chair, Kennedy Chair, and eventually, The Chair. 

The PP501 has since spurred many reinterpretations since then. We are particularly fond of Naoto Fukasawa's Hiroshima Chair (2008) for Japanese wood furniture company Maruni Wood Industry.

DOCUMENTARIES THAT ARE OF SPLENDID DESIGN

2003 My Architect: A Son’s Journey 
2005 Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe
2005 Sketches of Frank Gehry
2008 Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect 
2008 Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
2009 Objectified
2010 How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? 
2011 Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011 The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
2011 Unfinished Spaces