“I loved making the Slip Covered Armchair. I wanted to see something beautiful and I wanted to spend a long time making something beautiful. […] The pattern of the fabric came from a book of embroidery designs. They were line drawings. I traced them, adjusted the scale, and painted them in color with fabric paint on a length of linen that I dyed with diluted coffee on my stove at home.”
—Robert Gober

This painting of flowers on linen is a study for Slip Covered Armchair (1986–1987), one of the first furniture sculptures Gober created after his initial sink sculptures. In a photograph of the artist working on Armchair in his studio, this work can be seen hanging in the background.