KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL Rare and important salon chair, circa 1828-1830
OTTO WAGNER Armchair, designed for the Director's Office of the Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, 1906
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH Low chair, designed for the White Dining Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, 1912
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 'Peacock' chair, designed for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, designed 1921-1922
POUL HENNINGSEN 'Daylight' ceiling light, type 5/5 type shades, circa 1929
CARLO MOLLINO Unique and monumental ceiling light, designed for the Casa Orengo, Turin, 1949
JEAN PROUVÉ Demountable entry lodge, from Ferembal, Nancy, circa 1943-1944
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Unique ‘Dymaxion Airocean World Map', 1979
SHIGERU BAN 'PTH-02 Paper Tea House', 2006
KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL Rare and important salon chair, circa 1828-1830
OTTO WAGNER Armchair, designed for the Director's Office of the Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, 1906
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH Low chair, designed for the White Dining Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, 1912
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 'Peacock' chair, designed for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, designed 1921-1922
POUL HENNINGSEN 'Daylight' ceiling light, type 5/5 type shades, circa 1929
CARLO MOLLINO Unique and monumental ceiling light, designed for the Casa Orengo, Turin, 1949
JEAN PROUVÉ Demountable entry lodge, from Ferembal, Nancy, circa 1943-1944
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Unique ‘Dymaxion Airocean World Map', 1979
SHIGERU BAN 'PTH-02 Paper Tea House', 2006
Overview
Auction Info
Auction29 April 12am BST 2014
Auction 29 April 6pm
Howick Place
London SW1P 1BB (map)
Viewing 23 – 29 April
Monday – Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 12pm-6pm
The Architect will celebrate the contributions architects have made to our
environment through the furniture, objects, and equipment they’ve invented in
response to the buildings they’ve conceived. The most rigorous spaces, after all,
are integrated environments. As Louis Kahn said, "Design is not making beauty.
Beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love." Furniture, millwork,
and lighting by great architects have the ability to animate space, to transcend
their status as mere objects. "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth," Kahn
continued. It is through an investigation of those objects that we can approach the
philosophy of these great authors and ultimately, we hope, the truth.
– Lee F. Mindel, FAIA
Howick Place
London SW1P 1BB (map)
Viewing 23 – 29 April
Monday – Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 12pm-6pm
The Architect will celebrate the contributions architects have made to our
environment through the furniture, objects, and equipment they’ve invented in
response to the buildings they’ve conceived. The most rigorous spaces, after all,
are integrated environments. As Louis Kahn said, "Design is not making beauty.
Beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love." Furniture, millwork,
and lighting by great architects have the ability to animate space, to transcend
their status as mere objects. "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth," Kahn
continued. It is through an investigation of those objects that we can approach the
philosophy of these great authors and ultimately, we hope, the truth.
– Lee F. Mindel, FAIA