Pentagram partner Abbott Miller has designed "The Couch: Thinking in Repose" as a special exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of Freud’s birth at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna.

"The Couch" examines how a simple piece of furniture became synonymous with psychoanalysis. The exhibition traces the various threads of significance tied to this everyday household object and its history as a therapeutic instrument, a site of free association and a vehicle of poetic production.

Artworks by Odilon Redon, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Andy Warhol (his 1964 film "Couch") and Rachel Whiteread demonstrate the couch’s path from bourgeois interior design to object of contemplation for the avante-garde.

A nice tidbit: turns out that Freud's original couch remains in London, but because of its status as a national heritage object, cannot travel outside of London. Forgive me here of course, but I guess sometimes a couch really is more than just a couch.

On view 'till November 5th; more info here.