File:'Fourth Frond' Chair, cast bronze sculpture by Terence Main (American born 1954), 1991, Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg

Fourth Frond Chair, cast bronze sculpture by Terence Main, 1991, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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