A battered wooden and metal chair, encrusted with rough applications of plaster, sits atop a painted MDF platform, transforming an ordinary piece of furniture into a sculptural object that blurs the boundary between the utilitarian and the artistic. Franz West's tactile, gestural overworking of the chair's surface with dispersion on Masonite lends the work a raw, almost provisional quality, as though the piece is perpetually in a state of becoming. Characteristic of West's irreverent approach, *Naktstuhl* invites contemplation of how everyday objects are elevated — or destabilized — through the act of artistic intervention.