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Wicker chair and lounge | Wright
Estimated value: 3000-4000 US$
Auction:
Modernist 20 Century
Sales date: 2003-12-07
Location:
Chicago
Lot number: 433
Design
Marc NewsonYear 1990
Manufacturer Capellini
Architonic id
4103418
Wicker, aluminum
26.5"w x 36"d x 29"h
Newson traveled to Thailand in the late 1980s and developed the woven version of his famous lounge chair. Newson states "I thought of this really beautiful shape and went out to the factory in the countryside, full of oxen, to make it. Each one took four hundred man hours of work."
Literature:
Marc Newson, Booth-Clibborn, fig. 60
26.5"w x 36"d x 29"h
Newson traveled to Thailand in the late 1980s and developed the woven version of his famous lounge chair. Newson states "I thought of this really beautiful shape and went out to the factory in the countryside, full of oxen, to make it. Each one took four hundred man hours of work."
Literature:
Marc Newson, Booth-Clibborn, fig. 60
