Christine Corday Client Chair Tabletop Sculpture


This special work is the realization of the Edward Jones Client Chair by Managing Partner Penny Pennington and Artist Christine Corday. When asked about the symbol of the chair pinned to her lapel, Penny says it represents the seven million clients our firm serves, figuratively sitting on her shoulder every day; it is who she works for, who we are devoted to as an Edward Jones team, and one can’t look at it without knowing that's what Edward Jones is about. This monumental and simple idea inspired the collaboration with Corday. Her large-scale sculptures are conceived and constructed for the human body to touch, sit, rest, walk upon and through. Together, this unique project envisions a chair as sculpture and sculpture as a chair. The resulting collaboration is an uptick-inspired frame supporting the continual presence of the client and their place to come, sit awhile with the Edward Jones financial advisor and branch team, and by extension with the Edward Jones family supporting that deep, trusted relationship.  A place to dream of what is possible. A place to become confident of one's future.  

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Image of Christine Corday chair sculpture

Details

  • Metal: Bronze and blackened steel

Christine Corday Artist Bio

Corday is a multidisciplinary international artist known for her monumental concepts and installations. As a sculptor, she engages a material-based practice interested in touch and the evolving human scale of perception and fundamental forces. She works with temperature, material states, and elemental metals in close collaboration with Nobel Laureate astrophysicists and chemists; National Academy of Engineering-awarded engineers; and a broad range of material sciences, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and phenomenology. Her internship in astrophysics at NASA (1991) shaped the scale and subject of Corday’s work.  

She later traveled to paint and live in various art and cultural/historical contexts, including Tokyo, Japan (1999–2000), Seville, Spain (2000–2004), and Brooklyn, New York (2005-2008). Her projects continue to engage the material with tools that simulate temperatures at the surface of the Sun and pressures at Earth's core.  

Corday lives in Highland, New York with her husband and work partner Christopher Powers and dog Rook.
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