furniture, art & design
George Sowden (UK 1942-Now)
Oppenheimer clock from the ‘Objects of the Electronic Age’ series.
George Sowden’s “Oppenheimer” clock from Objects for the Electronic Age was created in 1983. Objects for the Electronic Age was a series of objects designed by the Memphis Group, of which George J. Sowden was one of the founders, along with Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi and many others.
A rare clock in superb condition – with original label to the reverse.
Milano 1983.
Price: 3.990 euro
Philippe Starck (Fr. 1949-now)
Rare ‘easylight’ Electrorama, Circa 1980.
Floor-neon lamp. Designed around 1977, the edition was for Starck Product or Electrorama circa 1980. Stamped ‘Starck Product’.
Makrolon, polyurethane and fluorescent tube H: 142 cm. (56 inches); D: 6,7cm.(2 3/8in.). The lamp has an inbuilt mercury tilt switch (the lamp lights up when its position is slightly altered)
This lamp was most likely purchased in the Netherlands at De Bijenkorf, circa 1980. Bibliography: J.-F. Grunfeld, M.-L. Jousset, Lumières Je Pense à Vous, exhibition catalog, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, June 3-August 5, 1985, p. 158, n. 282 C. Colin, Starck, Ed Pierre Mardaga, Liège, 1988, p. 274, 278, 296
Price: 5.800 euro
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