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" The life of Charles Rohlfs was as singular as the furniture he created: He was an occasional stage actor. His wife and sometime collaborator, Anna Katherine Green, has been credited with inventing the American detective novel. He gave up designing for a career in civil affairs. But for a few brief years at the turn of the last century, he fashioned wildly original pieces\u2014wood chairs with high, elaborately sculpted backs; a plant stand that looks like a space alien; three-legged tables; a desk chair with carving made to resemble the molecular structure of oak. A new exhibit at New York&amp;#039;s Metropolitan Museum of Art collects more than 40 rare examples of his &amp;quot;artistic furniture,&amp;quot; as he called it, many from the Rohlfs family home.   &amp;quot;The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs,&amp;quot; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 19\u2013January 23; metmuseum.org.  View more events from our Design Calendar. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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