Launched in 2010, the club is a group of chairs and CEOs committed to an aspirational goal of 30% women on FTSE-100 boards by next year.
A group of chairs writhe on the wall, held up by bent steel bars and giant forged nails whose heads are as big as fists.
The show takes as its starting point the old kiddie game of musical chairs, which in its original format embodies everything awful about being a kid: young players marching around a group of chairs like automatons, and a teacher or other authority figure barking, "No pushing" and "No running," though any child could see that the game clearly demanded both.
"He was concerned with who was going to what dinner parties and were the experts getting to know the right people?" So much of a stickler for detail was Mr. Taubman, according to Mr. Ainslie, that he would look through a catalog and complain when a group of chairs was poorly photographed or a piece of jewelry poorly lit.
At the top were clutter and mean groups of stingy chairs set in cement.
An upholstered 19th-century Swedish bench along the window and a group of slipper chairs, all from Gustafson's family, blend easily with sheepskin-covered wood chairs designed in the 1930s by Bruno Mathsson and tables by Josef Frank.
He walked toward a group of pool chairs in the shadows beside a stunted palm, but stopped when he realized that he wasn't alone, that someone was sitting in one of the chairs.
Komar and Melamid lead Sischy and me to a group of wooden chairs near the Canal Street window and bring a bottle of seltzer water and white plastic cups, and a basket of red apples that immediately evoke Mother Russia.
The lake is illuminated at night, as is a waterside grouping of Adirondack chairs around a fire pit where people have been known to congregate for an after-dinner smoke.
A lounge area at the entrance has a grouping of leather chairs and a couch in black and white, a crystal lamp and chandelier with sheer black shades and a backdrop of a shiny red tile wall.
