Key facts

Product:
Brambler Seat stool
Manufacturer:
Wright
Architonic ID:
4106411
Country:
United States
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

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