Prototype Origami chair by Philip Michael Wolfson

Prototype Origami Chair by Philip Michael Wolfson

Prototype ‘Origami’ chair, designed 1991, executed 2007

Folded and welded sheet steel. 70 cm. (27 1/2 in.) high Produced by Patrick Brillet/The Apartment Design & Art Gallery, Ltd., UK. From the ‘left’ edition of eight. Underside inscribed with signature ‘p m wolfson’.

ESTIMATE £5,000-7,000 ♠

PROVENANCE Patrick Brillet Fine Art, Ltd., London, UK

EXHIBITED ‘Super Design’, No. 1, The Piazza, London, 9 October–14 October 2007

LITERATURE Robert Klanten, et al., eds., Desire: The Shape of Things to Come, Berlin, 2008, p. 86, fig. 1

via Phillips de Pury & Company.

Am quite curious what the result will be on April 7, 2011. A production model was sold for $21,250 on June 12, 2008