"Ballenbank" Bench
Originally designed for the Museum Boijman van Beuningen, Rotterdam this example from an edition of three
PROVENANCE
Friedman-Bendda, New York
Modernity, Stockholm
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Originally designed for the Museum Boijman van Beuningen, Rotterdam this example from an edition of three
PROVENANCE
Friedman-Bendda, New York
Modernity, Stockholm
Acquired from the above by the present owner
This chair's flexibility allows it to make any office stand out, or any living room or bedroom look elegant.
All prices exclusive of shipping and VAT. Estimated shipping 6-12 weeks.
High Stool - ₤ 496
Low Stool - ₤ 314
Cushion - ₤ 222
Series of high and low stools, realized in metal laser-cut plate, folded up and polish lacquered in white, black, red, yellow and blue colours. A small magnetic cushion for the seat in polyurethane foam upholstered in fabric (Polaris or Hallingdal) in matching colours is also available.
ESTIMATE $10,000-15,000
Produced by Patrick Brillet/The Apartment Design & Art Gallery, Ltd., UK. Prototype for the edition of eight.
ESTIMATE $12,000-18,000
Handmade by Baas & den Herder, The Netherlands. Each chair back inset with metal lettering “BAAS,” the undersides of three signed in marker with “Maarten/februari ’07,” two with “Maarten/Septembre ‘06” and one with “June ‘0[obscured]/Maarten” (6).
"Soft Touch" shell produced via a process of rotomoulding in polyester with flexible internal mass in polyurethane.
Available in two versions:
Mass dyed, in white or black.
- With gloss lacquer finish, in white or black.
- Base in steel varnished in black or white.
Covers-
A single upholstery in silvered or black fabric is available.
Number five from the edition of eight. One leg incised with ‘SB’ and stamped with ‘Landowski Fondeur 2009’.
Number one from the edition of eight of the ‘Lathe VIII’ chair is in the permanent collection and was also included in the exhibition ‘Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 14 July – 18 October 2009.
This excellent example features original naugahyde. Signed with applied paper manufacturer’s label to reverse: [5670 Sofa].
Signed with applied gold rectangular manufacturer’s label to underside: [Dunbar Berne, Indiana].
Literature: Dunbar: Fine Furniture of the 1950s, Piña, ppg. 157, 200 Edward Wormley: The Other Face of Modernism, Gura, Kennedy and Weinberg, pg. 62
PROVENANCE Haunch of Venison, London, UK
EXHIBITED Thomas Heatherwick, ‘Extrusions’, Haunch of Venison, London, 17 September–8 November 2009
LITERATURE
Thomas Heatherwick, Extrusions, Haunch of Venison, London, 17 September–8 November 2009
LITERATURE
Shiro Kuramata, exh. cat., Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2000, pp. 24, 42–43, 48, and p. 149, pl. 3; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., Domus VIII: 1975–1979, p. 366
PROVENANCE Faculté de Lettres, Université de Besançon, Besançon, France
LITERATURE Galeries
Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 63;
Penelope Rowlands, Jean Prouvé, New York, 2002, pp. 50-51; Peter
Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre Complète, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005,
p. 252, fig. 1235.22,2
All prices exclusive of shipping and VAT. Estimated shipping 8-12 weeks.
All prices exclusive of shipping and VAT. Estimated shipping 6-12 weeks.
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