Pratone seat object (“Lawn”) | Dorotheum

Estimated value: 7000-8000 EUR

Auction:
Design

Sales date: 2003-05-06

Location:
Vienna, Austria

Lot number: 289

Design

Gruppe Sturm
Year 1966
Manufacturer Gufram

Architonic id

4101789

A Pratone seat object (“Lawn”), designed in 1966 by Gruppo Sturm (Giorgio Ceretti-Piero Derossi-Ricardo Rosso) for Gufram, Balancero, Torino, manufactured after 1986, moulded polyurethane foam, inscribed 86 GUFRAM MULTIPLI/32/200, height 95 cm, 140 x 140 cm.
No. 32 from the series of 200 pieces, of which less than half have been produced to date and which have mainly been sold to museums and galleries.
Literature: A. Bangert, Italian Furniture Design, Cologne 1996, page 100 - Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, p. 495 - 100 Meisterwerke aus dem Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 1996, pages 218/219 - Ph. Garner, Sixties Design, Cologne 1966, page 155 (prototype).