Frank Gehry (Canada 1929-2025)


Frank Gehry “Easy Edges” wiggle chair by Vitra. Labeled underneath and in a very nice original condition. This example is a 1999 production.

The chair was designed in 1972 as part of Gehry’s famous Easy Edges series. It was reissued by Vitra from 1992 as the Wiggle side chair. Created by the renowned architect Frank Gehry this extraordinary chair challenges the conventional notions of form, material and structural dynamic. Crafted from layers of corrugated cardboard, the Wiggle Chair exhibits a delicate balance between strength and flexibility. Gehry’s signature aesthetic make it a standout piece in any space. The chair has a slight twist/lean from use but it has a good warm tone (…that recent production chairs do not have)

Price: 1.350 euro

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Locus Solus chairs

Gae Aulenti (Italy 1927-2012)

Set of 4 ‘Locus Solus’ chairs for Poltronova, Italy 1960s

55.5 x 54 x 66.5cm high

enamelled black tubular metal frames with perforated seats. This set comes with their original loose waxed cotton cushions with dotted black on grey pattern. The design of these chairs was intended to be a playful take on the classic bentwood design.

Price: 4.000 euro (set of 4)

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Enzo Mari (Italy 1932-2020)

Autoprogettazione Chair ‘Sedia 1’, after a design by Enzo Mari, 1990s.

Pine wood and nails. 50 x 52.5 x 85cm high (seat 47cm high)

In 1974, the Italian designer Enzo Mari published 19 furniture designs that one could make by oneself in his book ‘Autoprogettazione?’. With this programm he created a counter proposal to the paradigm of mass consumption, an alternative to formalism and opening a path to the democratisation of design.
This chair was made by a skilled carpenter according to the original ideas Enzo Mari in the 1990s and has since gained a desirable warm patina.
Nice original condition. Some small scratches and stains commensurate with age.

Price: 875 euro (two available)

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Krat tafel

Gerrit Rietveld (Nl 1888 – 1964)

Cassina ‘crate’ table. Early edition – late 70s/early 80s.

beech wood. 174.5 x 97.5 x 71cm high.

The original Crate Series were designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1934 and sold mainly through the warehouse Metz &Co. The furniture was described in the store’s advertising as “weekend furniture,” suitable for “weekend houses, sunrooms, student and children’s rooms“.

This table or desk is a late 1970s or early 1980s Cassina edition. It has a very low manufacturers number (31) stamped on the underside next to the Cassina mark.

Price: 3.400 euro

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Brutalist sculpture

1970s large abstract Brutalist sculpture. Painted carved wood and steel.

Unsigned.

58 x 26 x 72cm high.

Price: 2.000 euro

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Wegner oak table

Hans J. Wegner (Dk 1914-2007)

Oak Model AT 310 Extendable Dining Table by Hans J. Wegner for Andreas Tuck, 1960s

A dining table designed by Hans Wegner in 1955. This classic piece of Danish modernism: simple and understated.

Included are two extension leaves that can be stored at the underside of the table. (each leaf is 40 cm wide so it is 160cm wide without the additional leaves)
The table is fully marked at the underside. Andreas Tuck, Denmark.

240 (extended) x 94 x 72cm high.

Price: 3.850 euro

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Gebroeders Reens desk

Gebroeders Reens (Nl early-mid-c20th)

Amsterdam desk 1930s

126 x 64 x 75.5cm high. Maple/birch and lacquered wood

A small a Dutch 30s art deco/modernist curved desk. Warm maple veneer with off-white lacquered wood.
This double-sided/freestanding desk was part of the interior of the jewellery shop S.Spyer located at the Koningsplein in Amsterdam. In 1929-1930 the shop was redesigned by Amsterdam architect Harry Elte, giving the shop a more modern Art Deco shopfront and interior. The furniture was executed by the Gebroeders Reens company. (original key monogrammed ‘R’).

Price: 2.700 euro

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Midcentury abstract sculpture

Unsigned 1960s sculpture.

Lead and marble. 57cm high / base 12 x 12cm.

A large and heavy abstract lead sculpture executed by an unknown artist in the 1960s. Its overall impression is of a modern dynamic figure in molten lead; a figure morphing into various biomorphic or abstract forms.

Price: 875 euro

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