Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Glass Chair by Shiro Kuramata, designed 1976.
Glass, Photobond 100 adhesive. 89.2 cm (35 1/8 in) high Produced by the Mihoya Glass Co. Ltd., Japan. From the edition of 40. Together with a certificate of authenticity from Meiko Kuramata.
ESTIMATE £35,000-40,000
SOLD AT £39,650
Snug Chair by Australian designer Dennis Abalos. It was a recent comment that pointed me to Dennis Abalos, while suggesting Japanese Architects Naruse Inokuma had copied their design of Dennis. I would doubt that. Certainly the design of both chairs have some similarities, but in my view not to an extent it is a shameless copy.
For comparision below the chair by Naruse Inokuma.
Recently there were two Sieben Kugel Chairs or Seven Balls Chairs for sale at Phillips de Pury & Company and each chair fetched $ 37,500.
Rare side chair, for the Kunstschau Wien 1908, model no. 371, ca. 1908
Beechwood, leather. 43 in. (109.2 cm.) high Produced by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austria.
ESTIMATE $50,000-70,000
SOLD AT $37,500
Molar Settee by Wendell Castle.
Via R Gallery – 20th Century Design.
Fritzi’s Chair by Robert Wilson, c. 1999
Tempered clear and frosted glass. 108 cm (42 1/2 in) high Produced for RW Work Ltd by Glass Impressions, USA. Number five from the edition of ten. Originally designed for the theatrical production The Days Before: Death, Destruction and Detroit III, 1999
ESTIMATE £2,000-3,000.
SOLD AT £3,250