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Design: Auction No. 084 - 23.06.2009

Auction No.084, 23 June 2009
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18 and 19 June, 10 - 18h
20 and 21 June, 13 - 17h
22 June, 10 - 15h

Pre auction report

Design for everyone! After its special Bauhaus sale, Quittenbaum, on 23 June, is going to offer 450 lots of international design.

Friends of Italian Design get literally their money’s worth with exquisit rarities by Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass, Guglielmo Ulrich and Nanda Vigo. Ponti’s ‚Sirene’ vase, designed c. 1923 and made by Richard-Ginori, can be purchased at € 7,000,--; a mysteriously illuminated table of clear, blue and turquoise glass staffs manufactured at Venini’s, stems from a northern Italian Villa that Ponti furnished c. 1960. It can also be acquired at € 7,000,--. Ettore Sottsass’ ‚Ultrafragola’ mirror is going to present its new owner in the proper light (designed in 1970, estimate: €4,500,--). The ‚Galtrucco’ table reminds one of a wing of an airplane; it was part of the interior of the shop of famous cloth merchant Galtrucco who had his headquarters at the Piazza del Duomo in Milan; estimate € 8,500,--. Lamps by Arredoluce are being coveted. The ‚Golden Gate’ floor light, designed in 1970 by Nanda Vigo can be had for an estimate of € 9,000,--. Angelo Lelli’s ‚Palmtree’ light, designed in 1948, is being estimated at € 6,000,--.

Friends of Scandinavian Design classics find two very-well preserved ‚Egg’ chairs, one in cognac brown, the other in black leather (Arne Jacobsen, 1958), estimated at € 5,000,-- respectively € 7,500,--. There are also selected pieces of furniture by Ilmari Tapiovaara; e. g. the very rare ‚Pirkka’ sideboard (designed c. 1955, estimate: € 8,000,--); only one more of these sideboards has been known to exist. A drawing table, designed in 1955 by Poul Kjaerholm (estimate: € 5,200,--) and the world-famous ‚Paimio’ easy chair, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1932 (estimate: € 15,000,--) can point the way.

The Frenchman Bernard Rancillac, known as designer and painter, caused a stir with his ‚Elephant’ chair that he designed in 1966 (estimate € 5,000,--).

The Eighties are back! Not only in fashion design. Design Super stars like Ron Arad, Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid lead the way.

‚Super Guppy’, designed by Marc Newson in 1987, outshines the street lamps (estimate: € 7,000,--); Ron Arad’s ‚Fortuni Screen’ has been sold only 25 times in different shapes; it had been designed in 1986 and has an estimate of € 10,000,--.
His ‚Rover double seater’ (designed in 1981; estimate: 8,000,--) and his ‚Well tempered chair’ (designed in 1986, estimate: € 8,000,--) count already among other design classics.

Zaha Hadid’s ‚Wave’ sofa is another highlight of the selection; designed in 1988 and produced at Edra’s in Milan only in a small number of copies, its outline reminds one of Hadid’s typical design vocabulary that she uses for her expressive buildings, estimate € 45,000,--.

German Design of the era can easily hold the pace. The Ginbande group of designers (Uwe Fischer and Klaus-Achim Heine) catched international attention with their rollable ‚Tabula Rasa’, a combined table with seats, extensible up to 475 cm, that they designed in 1987. Even today it has not lost its impact. One of the first pre-series pieces can be bought at an estimate of € 30,000,--.

Although it had been designed for the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam only in 2004, it’s already being respected as a design icon: the ‚Tennis ball bench’. The prototype by Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen ist he last piece of furniture of the selection and has a favourable estimation of € 4,000,--.