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Designing our conference room chairs
17 March 2023
Unfortunately, the self-guided reading room tour has been postponed until fall because the logistics of the Web site component are taking longer than expected. In the meantime a case at the entrance of the reading room will contain changing displays of information about the history of the room and the furniture. We begin with Edward Garratt's designs for our conference room chairs.
About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.
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