Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Cantilever Chair MR 20 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
P R O D U C E R
Metallgewerbe Müller
P R I C E R A N G E
5000 and more EUR
D E S C R I P T I O N
Cantilever chair MR20, 1927, Metallgewerbe Müller, Berlin. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Design 1927). Steel pipe, basketwork.
78 x 52 x 87 cm
Estimate price: 5000 euros
The auction is on Monday, November 23 2009 at 16.00 in Cologne.
R E F E R E N C E
Lot 407
Saturday I attended the first ever Wordcamp in the Netherlands.
I couldn’t leave without taking a photo of at least one chair: The Stick Stool by Gerard de Hoop I reported about on May 23, 2007:
I came across the Classroom Chair at a Phillips de Pury auction earlier.
Now NYC based J. Lohman Gallery has one for sale.
According to Lohman:
Stefan Wewerka
Vertreterstuhl or Klassenraumstuhlâ (Classroom Chair)
Germany, c. 1970
Lacquered wood
C. 30 ¾ in. (78 cm) high, 26 in. (66 cm) wide
Originally called the Vertreterstuhl, the chairs were part of an installation of a classroom at Galerie Moeller in Cologne in 1971. Since then the chair is also called Classroom Chair. Literature: Take a seat: Meisterwerke des Stuhldesigns (Masterpieces of Chair Design), Chart Gallery, Basel, 2005, pp. 102-103.Object No.: 8005
Price on request.
Lohman specializes in European design and decorative arts from the 1920s -1980s from mainly German designers and artistic movements.
A “Vertreterstuhl” is an Sales Rep Chair in the English language.
This Petit Jardin Bench by Dutch designer Tord Boontje who is on the forefront of bringing up lace patterns in his design is up for sale at Phillips de Pury .
ESTIMATE £25,000-35,000.
SOLD AT £31,250
I tried to find more on the web on Hayami Arakawa. Found no website of himself, but he should make one albeit for the sole purpose of this hilarious video.
Ah but there is a blog about another work from him: Intellectual Circle
Last edited by gje on September 20, 2010 at 11:21 PM