Important 20th Century Design 
3 December 2006
Important 20th Century Design 
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Frank Gehry

custom table from the Chiat/Day Building, Venice, California

USA, 1986
corrugated cardboard, glass, wood 29 h × 182½ w × 96 d in (74 × 464 × 244 cm)
estimate: $50,000–70,000
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Frank Gehry's design for the Venice office of Chiat/Day is a masterpiece by the architect. The building facade combines three distinct elements ranging from typical modernist lines to pop-influenced details. The centerpiece of the building is a set of large-scale binoculars created in collaboration with Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. This table was created for the conference room contained within the binoculars.
literature: GA Document: vol. 32, Futagawa, ppg. 22-31 discusses project Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works, Dal Co and Foster, ppg. 318-323

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Frank Gehry b. 1929

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Frank Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Canada. His family moved to Los Angeles where Gehry would attend the University of Southern California earning his bachelor degree in architecture in 1954. In 1956 Gehry moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he completed only two years of the program before returning to Los Angeles. Back in California, Gehry worked for Hideo Sasaki, Pereira & Luckman, Victor Gruen & Associates and André Remondet before starting his own firm, Frank Gehry and Associates in 1962.

Early projects in his career, such as his Easy Edges furniture line (1969-1973) comprised of chairs, stools and tables made of stacked corrugated cardboard, and his 1978 remodel of his Santa Monica residence using industrial items such as chain-link fencing, corrugated metal, wire-reinforced glass and plywood exhibit Gehry’s innovative use of materials and originality in form. By the 1980s Gehry was established in the field and in 1989 he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his experimental and extraordinary approach to design. Gehry rose to fame with important structures and projects such as the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (1997) and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (2003). Today Gehry is well-known for his distinct, artistic style.

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estimate: $5,000–7,000

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