Chachan sconces, pair

LITERATURE: Serge Mouille: A French Classic, Pralus, pg. 181

Coffee tables, pair

Inlaid signature to edge of each example: [Chale].

Serpentine Sofa

LITERATURE: The Complete Kagan: A Lifetime of Avant-Garde Design, Kagan, ppg. 120-121

Roticello Lamp

LITERATURE: Carlo Scarpa: I Vetri di un Architetto, Barovier, pg. 193 illustrates series

Pierced Table

ESTIMATE $50,000-70,000  

PROVENANCE Galerie du Passage, Paris

LITERATURE Rosanjin Kitaoji Isamu Noguchi, exh. cat., Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1996, p. 163, cat. no. S20; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Isamu Noguchi, Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, p. 297

Extremely Rare 'Cycladic' bud pot

ESTIMATE $60,000-90,000  

EXHIBITED “Lucie Rie/Hans Coper — Masterworks by Two British Potters,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 15, 1994 – May 21, 1995

LITERATURE Lucie Rie/Hans Coper — Masterworks by Two British Potters, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, illustrated p. 24, item C75

Important early 'Pod of Drawers'

ESTIMATE $300,000-$500,000

PROVENANCE Private Collection, New York; Christie's, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York, May 16, 2007, Lot 3; Sebastian + Barquet, New York

Important 'Strata' Buffet

ESTIMATE $100,000-$150,000

PROVENANCE David Gill Ltd., London

Very rare façade panel with porthole windows, from Bouqueval, France

ESTIMATE $80,000-$120,000

PROVENANCE School complex, Bouqueval, France; Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris

LITERATURE Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre Complète, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 104-105 for photographs and mention of the school; Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, pp. 545-547 and 552

Coffee table

This coffee table features four retractable shelves, each extending twelve inches. Signed with applied label to side: [Gabriella Crespi].

Standard Desk, no. 21

Literature: Jean Prouvé Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Sulzer, pg. 289 Jean Prouvé, Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, ppg. 330, 334-335

Provenance: Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris | Delorenzo 1950, New York | Private collection

Zig Zag Chair

Literature: Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition - Craftsman and Visionary, Barry Friedman, Ltd., fig. 32 illustrates this chair The Complete Rietveld Furniture, Voge, ppg. 82-83 The Furniture of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Baroni, ppg. 136-137

Untitled (Monumental Sculpture)

The highly detailed and labor-intensive Bush series illustrates a mastery of welded metal sculpture by Harry Bertoia. Initially growing out of an exploration of natural forms using wire or brass-coated iron, the Bush forms became more refined throughout the 1960s.

Bubble chaise

This work is number four from the edition of fifty. Signed with applied
metal studio label to underside: [Frank Gehry Bubbles 4/50 Published By
New City Edition 1987].

Egyptian Stool