Pair of 'Power Play' Armchairs and ‘Icing’ Coffee Table, designed 1991, executed 1994

Name: FRANK GEHRY (B. 1929)
Brand: Pair of 'Power Play' Armchairs and ‘Icing’ Coffee Table, designed 1991, executed 1994
Price: 7500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 9,450

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FRANK GEHRY (B. 1929)

Pair of 'Power Play' Armchairs and ‘Icing’ Coffee Table, designed 1991, executed 1994

Price Realised USD 9,450

produced by Knoll International, USA
bent and laminated maple, glass
32⁵⁄₈ x 32¹⁄₄ x 30¹⁄₂ in. (82.9 x 81.9 x 77.5 cm) (armchairs)
14³⁄₄ x 40 x 40 in. (37.5 x 101.6 x 101.6 cm) (table)
each branded Frank Gehry Knoll MADE IN USA
one chair dated 03/18/94, the other chair dated 07/22/94, the table dated 08/05/94

Frank Gehry: New Bentwood Furniture Designs, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, 1992, pp. 31 (armchairs), 37 (armchairs), 62-63, no. 11 (for a prototype of the armchairs), 64-65, no. 12 (armchairs), 110-111 (armchairs)
Frank O. Gehry: Design & Architecture – Gehry & Milunič: The Dancing House, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 42-43 (armchairs)
F. Dal Co and K. W. Forster, Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works, New York, 1998, pp. 428 (armchairs)
P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier du XXe Siècle: Dictionnaire des Créateurs, Paris, 2000, p. 267 (armchairs)
J. Fiona Ragheb, ed., Frank Gehry, Architect, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2001, pp. 126-127 (armchairs and ottoman), 129 (armchairs), 371 (armchairs)
J. Postell, Furniture Design, Hoboken, 2007, p. 90 (armchairs)

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