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Vitra
Switzerland
mixed media
Switzerland
mixed media
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $10,625
Sold with original packaging. Twenty-eight of the examples included in the collection are no longer in production.
Miniature Modern Masterpieces
For more than twenty years, the Vitra Design Museum has been making miniature replicas of the works from their collection. At one sixth of the size of the original, these miniature masterpieces are precisely made down to the smallest details of construction including hardware and wood grain.
The present lot is comprised of forty-nine miniatures, twenty-eight of which are no longer in production by Vitra. The complete list is as follows:
- Cone Chair by Verner Panton, 1988
- DSR by Charles and Ray Eames, 1950
- LCW by Charles and Ray Eames, 1945 *
- Chair with a Shadow by Robert Wilson, 1987
- Robie 1 Chair by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908
- Chair from the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1921 *
- Louis 20 Chair by Philippe Starck, 1991
- Cabaret Fledermaus Chair by Josef Hoffmann, 1905
- Militaire Stoel by Gerrit Rietveld, 1923
- Midway Gardens Chair by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1913/14 B35 Chair by Marcel Breuer, 1928-29
- Sandows Chair by Rene Herbst, 1929-29
- Chair No. 3 by Maarten Van Severen, 1992 *
- Favela Chair by Fernando & Humberto Campana, 1991
- Globus Chair by Jesus Gasca, 1993 *
- DKR by Charles and Ray Eames, 1951
- First Chair by Michele De Lucchi, 1983
- LCM by Charles and Ray Eames, 1945-46
- Coconut Chair by George Nelson and Associates, 1956 *
- Sitzgeiststuhl by Hans & Bodo Rasch, 1927 *
- Rood Blauwe Stoel by Gerrit Rietveld, 1918
- Nagasaki Chair by Mathieu Mategot, 1952
- DSR by Charles and Ray Eames, 1950
- Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio, 1965
- Hill House Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1903
- Rolf's Chair by Frank Gehry, 1990
- Thinking Man's Chair by Jasper Morrison, 1986
- Chaise by Le Corbusier, 1928
- How High the Moon by Shiro Kuramata, 1986
- Karuselli Chair by Yrjo Kukkapuro, 1964-65
- Johnson Wax Chair by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939
- Wiggle Side Chair by Frank Gehry, 1972
- RAR by Charles and Ray Eames, 1950
- No. 14 Chair by Thonet & Sohne, 1859-60
- Tulip Chair by Eero Saarinen, 1956
- W.W. Stool by Philippe Starck, 1990
- Paimio Chair by Alvar Aalto, 1930-31
- MR20 Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1927
- Well Tempered Chair by Ron Arad, 1986
- Panton Chairs, set of five by Verner Panton, 1967 *
- Sitzmaschine by Josef Hoffmann, 1905
- 670 Lounge Chair with Ottoman by Charles and Ray Eames, 1956
- Diamond Chair by Harry Bertoia, 1952-53
- Spine Chair by Andre Dubreuil, 1986
- Heart Chair by Verner Panton, 1958
- Chaise by Robert Mallet-Stevens, 1928
- Vegetal Chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, 2008
- Panton Chair by Verner Panton, 1967
- Bent Wood Rocker, Anonymous
*Item no longer retains the original booklet.
