Shigeru Ban

Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Palazzo dell Arte, Milan, April 18-23, 2007
Helsinki, August 24-September 23, 2007
Design Miami, Miami, December 7-9, 2007

Peter Davey, "Paper Palace:  Shigeru Ban Designs a Paper Pavilion," Architectural Review, September 2000, pp. 58-60  
Matilda McQuaid, Shigeru Ban, London, 2003, pp. 5, 14, 30, 60-67, 152-153
Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne, The Green House  New Directions in Sustainable Architecture, New York, 2005, pp. 85-89
Douglas Davis, "Museum of a Third Kind," Art in America, June/July 2005, pp. 75-79
Juhani Pallasmaa and Tomoko Sato, Alvar Aalto:  Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban, London, 2007, pp. 68, 72, 73, 84, 97, 146-149
Michael Webb, "Pod Life:  His Largest Building to Date, Shigeru Ban's new Library is a bold Celebration of Structure," The Architectural Review, February 2007, p. 60
Jeremy Melvin, "A is for Aalto," Apollo, May 2007, p. 83
Francesca Picchi, "Resurrezione materica/Material resurrection," Domus, May 2007, pp. 126-131
Michael Kimmelman, Waste Not:  The Accidental Environmentalist, The New York Times Magazine, May 20, 2007, pp. 68-75
Paul Finch, "View," Architectural Review, June 2007, p. 32
Alex Coles, "Pavilions," Art Monthly, July-August 2007, pp. 1-3
Mason Currey, "UPM ProFi:  Shigeru Ban and Artek Pioneer the Architecture of Recycled Sticky Labels," Metropolis, September 2007, pp. 104
Alice Rawsthorn, "Out of the Woods," The New York Times Magazine, October 21, 2007, pp. 98-103

The Artek Pavilion was designed by Shigeru Ban for installation at the 2007 Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.  This prefabricated modular pavilion was commissioned by Artek, the Finnish furniture company, in collaboration with UPM, one of world's leading forest products groups, as a mobile exhibition space.   The structure was then shown outside of Helsinki's Design Museum during the summer of 2007, and finally as a satellite exhibition of Design Miami in December 2007.

Created in 2007, the Artek Pavilion is a prefabricated structure designed for re-use and mobility.  Shigeru Ban, its creator, is an internationally recognized architect known for his distinct approach to both commercial and residential structures.   Ban has been widely acclaimed for the both the greenness of his architecture and his dedication to the social responsibility of the architect.  The Artek pavilion is a structure that embodies the historic concept of the pavilion form, the environmental consciousness inherent in Ban's work and the two Finnish companies' dedication to sustainability.  As a "Green" strategy has become part of the global economy, Artek and UPM have joined Ban in creating a structure that speaks to the possibilities of utilizing a basic recycled material: self-adhesive labels. 

This lot is available for viewing at a storage facility in Long Island City, NY.  Please note that this lot is not currently assembled.  Please contact the 20th Century Design department for an appointment to view and inspect this work in its current disassembled state. 

This lot will be available for pick-up after the auction from the storage facility located in Long Island City, NY.   Beginning July 1, 2012, the buyer will be liable for the payment of all storage and insurance charges at its standard rates. 

The lot does not include the furniture or other materials shown in the installation photographs in this catalogue.