Product sheet Brambler Seat stool
Designer:
Forrest Myers
Forrest Myers
Anodized aluminum
20"w x 14.5"d x 14"h
In the early 1980s, Forrest Myers was applying Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity and repeated tetrahedrons into his designs for furniture. This exploration culminated in the use of aluminum wire that becomes structural when bent and pressed into a dense tangle. Applied tag with signature and date.
Literature:
Design for Living: Furniture and Lighting 1950-2000, Hanks and Hoy, pg. 181 illustrates similar stool
Forrest Myers, Kaufmann, pg. 26
Provenance:
Art et Industrie, New York
Sold by the order of the Board of Trustees of The Art Institute of Chicago
20"w x 14.5"d x 14"h
In the early 1980s, Forrest Myers was applying Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity and repeated tetrahedrons into his designs for furniture. This exploration culminated in the use of aluminum wire that becomes structural when bent and pressed into a dense tangle. Applied tag with signature and date.
Literature:
Design for Living: Furniture and Lighting 1950-2000, Hanks and Hoy, pg. 181 illustrates similar stool
Forrest Myers, Kaufmann, pg. 26
Provenance:
Art et Industrie, New York
Sold by the order of the Board of Trustees of The Art Institute of Chicago
estimated value:
1500-2000 US$
reached price:
9500 US$
Auction:
Modernist 20 Century
Sales date: 2004-12-05
location: Chicago
Lot number: 107
1500-2000 US$
reached price:
9500 US$
Auction:
Modernist 20 Century
Sales date: 2004-12-05
location: Chicago
Lot number: 107
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