It is very typical for students in K-12 art education to study aesthetics based on artistic objects. Artistic objects, however, need not be the sole source for aesthetic investigation. Designed objects that surround us daily could also be used in discussion of aesthetic concepts. Consider the variety of chairs you encounter in a typical day.
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Robin Vande Zande (2007) studied this question.