Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

Metal chair with cut-out likeness of Albert Einstein, and with numerous equations and associations, signed in relief "R.N." Numbered in relief, "A.P. 5". 43 x 25 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (1100 x 655 x 465 mm). From the collection of American illustrator and author Hilary Knight.

A fantastic metal chair commemorating Albert Einstein, by industrial artist Ries Niemi. According to Niemi, "Some chairs, I made one of. Other chairs, I have made dozens of. In 1993, when Thurgood Marshall died, I decided to make a chair honoring him. That led to a series of commemorative chairs, with over 24 different people portrayed, each in an edition of 24. Many of these sold out- I only made them as they were ordered- but I have made close to 250 of these Portrait Chairs since then."

According to Knight, "I bought it from the estate of Dr. Marian Slater, an anthropologist I knew in Sag Harbor. She was a high order eccentric whose collection of furniture & objects involved everything animal, vegetable or mineral ... but ALWAYS extraordinary ... as Ms. Slater was. This iron silhouette chair is a work of ART."