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prevalent than new forms. While the forms of furniture are difficult to mutate—although a number of exhibitors met this challenge with superb aplomb—surface, the skin of things--color, texture, patina— proved infinitely flexible, infinitely mutable. If ICFF was not the place to find a comfortable couch, it was definitely a place in which to consider how that couch should be covered, what it should be made of. Having said that, there were some true pioneers in the matter of form, notably architect William Peterson, whose "Loop de Loop" series of chairs, chaises longues and ottomans are inspired, not only by modernist antecedents working with tubular steel— Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe and Mendes da Rocha—but by a rusted steel bar Pedersen found buried in a field: "It had been twisted and bent into a fluid shape." Getner