Prototype Origami chair by Philip Michael Wolfson

Prototype Origami chair by Philip Michael Wolfson

Prototype Origami Chair by Philip Michael Wolfson

Prototype ‘Origami’ chair, designed 1991, executed 2007

Folded and welded sheet steel. 70 cm. (27 1/2 in.) high Produced by Patrick Brillet/The Apartment Design & Art Gallery, Ltd., UK. From the ‘left’ edition of eight. Underside inscribed with signature ‘p m wolfson’.

ESTIMATE £5,000-7,000 ♠

PROVENANCE Patrick Brillet Fine Art, Ltd., London, UK

EXHIBITED ‘Super Design’, No. 1, The Piazza, London, 9 October–14 October 2007

LITERATURE Robert Klanten, et al., eds., Desire: The Shape of Things to Come, Berlin, 2008, p. 86, fig. 1

via Phillips de Pury & Company.

Am quite curious what the result will be on April 7, 2011. A production model was sold for $21,250 on June 12, 2008

Origami Chair by Philip Michael Wolfson

Origami Chair by Philip Michael Wolfson

Philip Michael Wolfson Origami chair, designed 1991, executed 2007 Gold-leafed acid-patinated sheet steel. 27 1/2 in. (69.9 cm) high The Apartment Ltd., UK. From an edition of 8 “right” examples.

Estimate: $16,000-20,000
SOLD AT $21,250

via Phillips de Pury & Company.

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