Contour Cardboard Chair by Frank Gehry at Christie’s
FRANK GEHRY (b. 1929)
CONTOUR CHAIR
Price Realized £625Estimate £1,200 – £1,500 ($2,164 – $2,705)
Sale 5340
interiors – 20th century edition
16 September 2008
London, South KensingtonLot Description
designed 1970, for Easy Edges, corrugated cardboard and masonite
75cm. high
Via Christie’s
The CONTOUR CHAIR is a beautiful and elegant and the character of the material is wonderfully expressed. The chair looks to be comfortable. As for his ‘HOCKEY PUCK’ chairs they look very contrived and are diminished by facile complexity. I suspect that the jigging for these chairs is visually more interesting than the chairs.
My guess is that Knoll Furniture probably lost their “Ancillary Support System” on this commission. No harm done though since they probably got a juicy tax write off.