Rietveld Zig Zag Variation 3 – Duncan by Garry Knox Bennett

Rietveld Zig Zag Variation 3 - Duncan by Garry Knox Bennett
Rietveld Zig Zag Variation 3 – Duncan by Garry Knox Bennett

In an interview with Stefano Catalani (SC) Garry (GBK) explains:

SC: After the Shaker-inspired Old Ladderback and New Ladderback, you made the Duncan Rietveld, which is inspired by Duncan Phyfe [Ed. A famous American furniture designer. Note to self: find out if he is related to the famous Fife yacht designers].

GKB: And that’s an easy shape to do. There’s no carving in it, you know. I tried to find somebody who could carve me the back splat, the cherubs. I wanted something really gaudy. I found one guy who would do it, but then he asked, ” What are you going to do with it?” I explained to him and he didn’t want his work messed with. So, I could do it, if I could learn how to sharpen a chisel.

SC: You say that very often.

GKB: Yeah, I know, but they’re hard to sharpen. Some people can sharpen them real quick. Wendell Castle can sharpen a chisel in about five minutes. I could carve something, but it would take forever , and the whole idea here as in most of my work, is not to lavish a lot of time on this stuff. We’re just talking ideas here.

Banquette by Maria Pergay


Banquette by Maria Pergay

Lot 71

Banquette, c. 1968

Brushed steel, suede. 38 x 300 x 100 cm (15 x 118 x 39 3/8 in) Produced by Design Steel, France.

ESTIMATE £60,000-80,000

via Phillips de Pury & Company.

Chair WB 301 by Marcel Breuer


Chair WB 301 by Marcel Breuer

Lot 51

Chair, model no. WB 301, c. 1934

Bent aluminum, painted plywood. 74 cm (29 1/8 in) high Manufactured by Embru-Werke AG, Switzerland, for Stylclair, France. Stretcher impressed with ’58 301′ and metal lable with ‘MEUB ES STYLCLAIR/LYON PARIS’.

ESTIMATE £5,000-7,000

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Six rare dining Chairs by Marcel Louis Baugniet


Six rare dining Chairs by Marcel Louis Baugniet plus dining table

ca. 1928

ESTIMATE £35,000-40,000

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Chairs by Rick Owens

Chairs by Rick Owens 1
Chairs by Rick Owens 2
Chairs by Rick Owens 3
Chairs by Rick Owens
In one way or another I found Arren Williams‘ blog, and more in particular, his Fashionable Seat post. One huge disadvantage of Arren’s blog is, apart from page navigation, it doesn’t offer tags or categories or a searchable archive and on top of it the search function doesn’t operate very well. On the other hand, Arren does offer inspirational chair stuff from time to time . A little search resulted in a nice post of the 3Rings blog about Rick Owens, a Los Angeles fashion guy working in Paris who had designed some chairs for his own studio, which attracted attention from some furniture design aficionados. I also found other posts referring to Rick Owens on He Seems Nice.