Design Agenda: The Collection of Michael Maharam
Design Agenda: The Collection of Michael Maharam
Jasper Morrison
"Wing-Nut" Chair
Auction Closed
October 15, 05:11 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jasper Morrison
"Wing-Nut" Chair
circa 1985
from an edition of 8
hardboard, piano hinges and wing-nut connectors
31⅞ x 15½ x 15¾ in. (81 x 39.2 x 40 cm)
Phillips London June 8, 1999, lot 368
Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne
Private Collection, Cologne
Sotheby's New York, November 16, 2007, lot 131
Jasper Morrison, Jasper Morrison: Designs, Projects and Drawings 1981-1989, London, 1990, p. 25
Jasper Morrison, Everything but the Walls, Baden, Switzerland, 2002, p. 191
The "Wing-Nut" chair was designed and hand-built by Jasper Morrison while he was studying at the Royal College of Art, and ultimately sold at his degree exhibition in 1985. The chair combines hardboard panels assembled together using piano hinges and wing-nut connectors to create an overall structure reminiscent of an origami composition. “My intention in designing these items was to avoid designing them… to use materials in the most obvious way and to let them dictate the forms,” he stated in 1988. This early work provides an apropos introduction to the work of one of the most celebrated contemporary designers of our time, characterized by bold experimentation and a relentless exploration of new materials. Another example of the present model is held in the collection of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.