Paris Side Chair by André Dubreuil

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André Dubreuil (b. 1951) PARIS SIDE CHAIR

Price Realized £4,000 ($7,212)

Estimate £1,500 – £2,000 ($2,705 – $3,606)

Sale 5340
interiors – 20th century edition
16 September 2008
London, South Kensington
Lot Description

André Dubreuil (b. 1951)
PARIS SIDE CHAIR
designed 1988, for A. D. Decorative Arts, steel with acid-treated surface
93cm. high

Via Christie’s

Prototype Pylon Chair by Tom Dixon

TOM DIXON (b. 1959) PROTOTYPE PYLON CHAIR

Price Realized £2,000 ($3,606)

Estimate £1,000 – £1,500 ($1,803 – $2,705)

Sale 5340
interiors – 20th century edition
16 September 2008
London, South Kensington

circa 1991, metal wire
75cm. high

Via Christie’s

Sculptural Chair by Anthony Smitherman

ANTHONY SMITHERMAN SCULPTURAL CHAIR

Price Realized £6,000 ($10,818)

Estimate £2,500 – £3,500 ($4,508 – $6,311)

Sale 5340
interiors – 20th century edition
16 September 2008
London, South Kensington
Lot Description
ANTHONY SMITHERMAN
SCULPTURAL CHAIR
circa 1996, wood, together with a portfolio of images documenting the chair’s creation
210cm. high

Via Christie’s

:: CWG Design :: About ::

Joris Laarman’s Bone Chair

About the Gallery:

The Carpenters Workshop Gallery specializes in the converging fields of art and design. Their focus is to promote the careers of contemporary designers through exhibiting unique and limited-edition works in solo and group exhibitions and at international art and design fairs.

The gallery opened in 2004 in an old gasworks factory in Chelsea. The team recently opened their second gallery in Mayfair, bringing their bold aesthetic and adding some youthful zing to the revered Albemarle Street. The gallery maintains an ambitious program of diverse artists to bring functional sculpture to the forefront of contemporary collections. The gallery presents post 1980’s stars such as Jurgen Bey, Ron Arad, Atelier van Lieshout and extends to the current generation of designers such as Ingrid Donat, Tejo Remy, Robert Stadler, Charles Trevelyan, Marcel Wanders, Pablo Reinoso, Demakersvan, Joris Laarman, Xavier Lust, Max Lamb, Sebastian Brajkovic, Vincent Dubourg and Ika Kuenzel.

The Carpenters Workshop Gallery aims to be the destination in London for cutting-edge contemporary design-art.

:: CWG Design :: About ::

They feature Joris Laarman whose Bone Chair became almost instantly famous.

Joris Laarman was born in Borculo, The Netherlands in 1979.

He started his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, after which he attended the Design Academy, Eindhoven. Laarman graduated with cum laude in 2003. His graduation piece, the ‘Heatwave’ concrete radiator brought him a lot of media attention. This rococo piece is now produced by Droog Design in the Netherlands, and has been exhibited world-wide.

Later he established his own studio in Utrecht in an attempt to combine innovation, aesthetics, curiosity, and freedom. It concentrates on architectural interventions and product design with a poetic kind of engineering. Next to a collection of highly unique products Laarman works for several well-known international design companies and galleries. He recently contributed in articles and seminars for Domus magazine and has been a guest teacher at European universities as well as the Architectural Association (AA) in London and the Design Academy Eindhoven in The Netherlands.

Matthias Pliesnig – Waive Chair

Waive (2007)

In the summer of 2005 I built a boat which I’ve been sailing for the past two years. The experience from building the boat gave me a new skill-set which allowed me to make wood achieve the strength qualities (and beauty) of compound curves.

This has lead to a body of work that investigates influence from nature’s engineering and our interaction with strange furniture.

Waive is full of compound curves, making the piece very lightweight and strong.

‘Double-block-laminations’ help tremendously with the strength (the Wright brothers used this method to construct their ribs in the Wright flyer).

Waive is “pressed” down in the centre and “pulled up” on the ends to gesture a place one can sit.

I will be working on longer versions of this piece with more areas to sit. The eventual goal of this work is it to custom-build/design site specific pieces inside architecture.

Via: Dezeen

See this US Designer’s site: Matthias Pliesnig Studio