What happens at P.S. 1 after the architects and d.j.s go home?

Ply being the go-to US material of quick and cheap fixes, you wonder how a Miesien ply chaise, no matter how high-end the material or the design reference, will be interpreted by its eventual recipients, especially after a summer of drunk dudes standing on, bashing in, and falling over it. Why didn’t they just let everyone go shopping?