Modular Seating System | Phillips, de Pury & Company
Estimated value: 8000-12.000 US$
Auction:
20-21st Century Design Art
Sales date: 2002-05-22
Location:
New York
Lot number: 167
Design
Cini Boeri
Year 1972
Manufacturer Gavina for Knoll International
Architonic id 4104612
Year 1972
Manufacturer Gavina for Knoll International
Architonic id 4104612
The present lot and the following three lots were purchased in 1972 for an Umbrian villa from the Knoll Showroom in Milan. Designed by Gae Aulenti, the Milan Showroom was part of an early 1970s wave of new exhibition spaces for Knoll that reflected their European merger with Gavina. The works by Italian designers and architects featured in the Milan showroom were rarely available outside of Italy.
Molded black ABS plastic frame with leather upholstery comprising one sofa, two settees and two telescoping tables with Gavina foil label (5) sofa: 251/2 x 911/2 x 363/8 in. (64.7 x 232.4 x 92.4 cm) settees: 253/4 x 511/4 x 37 in. (65.4 x 130.3 x 94 cm) telescoping tables: 20 x 36 x 35 in. (50.7 x 91.4 x 88.9 cm)
Literature:
"Market: Sensuous Space Saving," Interiors, July 1972, p. 26 "Un Sistema di Divani Articolati,"
Domus, no. 505, December 1971, pp. 25-26 Eric Larrabee and Massimo Vignelli, Knoll Design, New York, 1981, p. 188 (for an illustration of the model)
Molded black ABS plastic frame with leather upholstery comprising one sofa, two settees and two telescoping tables with Gavina foil label (5) sofa: 251/2 x 911/2 x 363/8 in. (64.7 x 232.4 x 92.4 cm) settees: 253/4 x 511/4 x 37 in. (65.4 x 130.3 x 94 cm) telescoping tables: 20 x 36 x 35 in. (50.7 x 91.4 x 88.9 cm)
Literature:
"Market: Sensuous Space Saving," Interiors, July 1972, p. 26 "Un Sistema di Divani Articolati,"
Domus, no. 505, December 1971, pp. 25-26 Eric Larrabee and Massimo Vignelli, Knoll Design, New York, 1981, p. 188 (for an illustration of the model)
