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Foldable Desk Chairs by Armin Wirth


10 foldable Desk Chairs by Armin Wirth

Estimate £5,000 – £7,000 ($7,670 – $10,738)

Sale 7838 20th Century Decorative Art & Design 21 April 2010 London, King Street

ARMIN WIRTH (B. 1903)

SET OF TEN ALU-FLEX CHAIRS, DESIGNED 1951

produced 1951-1953 by Hans Zollinger Söhne, Zurich, with plywood backs and hinged seats, on turned, cast and machined aluminium frames

32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 17¼ in. (43.5 cm.) wide; 19¾ in. (50.5 cm.) deep

impressed numerals to undersides of some seats (10)

Literature

A. Rüegg, Swiss Furniture and Interiors in the 20th Century, Basel, 2002, p. 364 (examples illustrated)

Lot Notes

Originally designed for a Rudolf Steiner School, this design was presented with Die Gute Form award in 1953.

Artist/Maker/Author Information

* Wirth, Ignaz Sebastian

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Lyre Chairs by Mark Brazier-Jones (1992)

Estimate £2,000 – £3,000 ($3,002 – $4,503)

Sale 5533

20th Century Decorative Art & Design

24 March 2010 London, South Kensington

MARK BRAZIER-JONES (B. 1956)

cast and wrought iron, lyre and book back, artist palette seat on wrench, sword and axe head supports, signed inside of book Mark Brazier Jones 1992

39 in. (99 cm.) high (2)

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Chaise Longue No 4 by Tom Raffield

Chaise Longue No 4 by Tom Raffield

Price Realized £2,250 ($4,039) includes buyer’s premium

Estimate £2,000 – £3,000 ($3,606 – $5,409)

Sale 5340

Interiors – 20th Century Edition including Modern Design, Art, Fashion & Prints
16 September 2008
London, South Kensington

Lot Description
TOM RAFFIELD CHAISE LONGUE NO.4

2007, for Sixixis, oak bentwood 210cm. long

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Update March 27:
Price Realized £2,250 (including buyer’s premium)

Golgotha Chair by Gaetano Pesce

Estimate £15,000 – £20,000 ($22,740 – $30,320)

Sale 7838 20th Century Decorative Art & Design 21 April 2010 London, King Street

GAETANO PESCE (B. 1939)
GOLGOTHA CHAIR, 1972
limited prototypic production by Bracciodiferro SRL., Dacron-filled and resin soaked fibreglass cloth
39½ in. (100 cm.) high; 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) wide; 66 in. (26 cm.) deep
ink stamp to underside Golgotha Gaetano Pesce Prodotta Da Bracciodiferro SRL

Provenance
Alessandro Mendini, Italy; Galleria Colombari, Milan; Private Collection, France; Wright, Utopia, Lost and Found, Works from an Important Private Collection, 1st April 2008, Lot 810; Private Collection, Europe

Lot Notes
Fashioned from a rectangular panel of fibreglass cloth, the form of the chair is determined by the actions of the individual production operator. The supple resin-impregnated cloth is suspended from wires or cables to suggest the basic form of the chair, whilst the impression of the seat itself is determined by the contours of the operative’s own body. The mass then hardens to an individually-determined form. Bracciodiferro was a studio product line of Italian furniture manufacturer Cassina, responsible for a brief series of objects intended to underscore the contradictions between designers and industry.

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Pantonic 5010 Chair by Verner Panton

Pantonic 5010 Chair in Black by Verner Panton

Estimate £2,000 – £3,000 ($3,032 – $4,548)

Sale 5533
20th Century Decorative Art & Design
24 March 2010
London, South Kensington

VERNER PANTON (1926-1998)
‘PANTONIC 5010’ CHAIR, DESIGNED 1992
for Studio Hag, laminated and stained beech
35 in. (89 cm.) high

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