GIO PONTI Lounge chair, 1950s
Walnut, fabric, webbing. 33 3/4 in. (85.7 cm.) high Manufactured by Cassina, Italy.
ESTIMATE $15,000-18,000LITERATURE Figli Di Amadeo Cassina Meda Milano, Milan, ca. 1955, fig. 811
Phillips de Pury & Company – Two-seater September chair by Shigeru Uchida
Two-seater September chair by Shigeru Uchida, ca. 1977:
Enameled tubular steel, enameled steel wire. 26 1/2 x 55 x 35 in. (67.3 x 139.7 x 88.9 cm.) Manufactured by Build Co. Ltd., Japan.
ESTIMATE $4,000-6,000 ….NOT SOLD
LITERATURE International Furniture Design for the ’90s, New York, 1991, p. 21 for a similar example
Via Phillips
Puch stool by Ron Arad
Puch stool by Ron Arad
For the non European readers: Puch is an Austrian manufacturer of all sorts of movable things as cars, tanks, motorbikes and mopeds. In my youth in The Hague you didn’t belong if you didn’t drive a
“Puch Moped”
Actually this
photo from Brom Brom
is better (if you click the enlarged version you will see a Stork on the T-shirt which means it is probably a T-shirt issued by the The Hague Puch club chapter….)
RON ARAD
Puch stool, ca. 1981
Chrome-plated tubular steel, moped seat. 32 1/2 in. (82.6 cm.) high Manufactured by One Off Ltd., UK. Back of seat printed with PUCH.
ESTIMATE $8,000-10,000LITERATURE Yukio Futagawa, Sticks and Stones. One Offs & Short Runs. Ron Arad 1980-1990, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1990, pp. 38-39; Deyan Sudjic, Ron Arad, London, 1999, pp. 20 and 100-101
Phillips de Pury & Company: PETER ZUMTHOR, Chaise lounge
PETER ZUMTHOR Chaise lounge, 2007
Bent mahogany, chrome-plated tubular metal, leather. 25 x 77 3/4 x 20 1/8 in. (63.5 x 197.5 x 51.1 cm.) Produced by Dietiker AG, Switzerland. Number one from an edition of three.
ESTIMATE $6,000-9,000
Rover Two-Seater Sofa and Lounge Chair by Ron Arad
Rover two-seater sofa and Rover lounge chair by Ron Arad, 1981
Painted tubular steel, Rover car seats. Sofa: 31 1/2 x 48 x 36 in. (80 x 121.9 x 91.4 cm.); chair: 30 in. (76.2 cm.) high Manufactured by One Off Ltd., UK. Underside of each with decal “ONE/Off/LONDON/ 01 379 7796†(2).
ESTIMATE $15,000-20,000LITERATURE Deyan Sudjic, Ron Arad: Restless Furniture, New York, 1989, pp. 30 and 82 for the sofa; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Modern Chairs, Cologne, 1993, p. 116; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 1997, p. 562 for the chair; Deyan Sudjic, Ron Arad, London, 1999, p. 10 for the chair