LINA BO BARDI, MARCELO FERRAZ AND MARCELO SUZUKI | PROTOTYPE FOR A "GIRAFA" CHAIR
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July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LINA BO BARDI, MARCELO FERRAZ AND MARCELO SUZUKI
PROTOTYPE FOR A "GIRAFA" CHAIR
circa 1986
executed by the Marcenaria Barauna workshop, São Paulo
Grumichama wood
branded Barauna
31¼ × 15 x 16⅛ in. (79.3 × 38.1 x 41.1 cm)
Collection of Marcelo Ferraz
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005
Instituto Lina Bo E. P. M. Bardi, ed., Tempos de Grossura: O Design No Impasse, Sao Paulo, 1994, p. 78 (for the model photographed inside Casa do Benin na Bahia)
Olivia de Oliveria, "Lina Bo Bardi: Obra Construida," Revista Internacional de Arquitectura, no. 23-24, 2002, pp. 79 and 171
Mina Hugerth, ed., Marcenaria Baraúna: Móvel como Arquitetura, São Paulo, 2017, pp. 38-43
Designed by Bo Bardi, Ferraz and Suzuki as part of their Casa do Benin Restaurant in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, another prototype of this chair and its accompanying table are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.