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Louis Durot

Prototype Tongue coffee table

France, 1971 / 1982
lacquered polyurethane 19 h × 57 w × 29 d in (48 × 145 × 74 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,000
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Signed and dated to underside '1982 No 3 Louis Durot Prototype 1971 No 1 Batinat No 2 Chair High'. An example of this design will be published in the forthcoming book Louis Durot 60 Years of Creation by Soufiane Bensabra and published by Éditions de la Différence. Sold with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Louis Durot.
literature: Polyurethannes: Louis Durot, Rodriguez, unpaginated

This work will ship from Wright in Chicago, Illinois.

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I tried to make shapes that you easily could find in comic strips, on alien worlds, and alien shapes. I tried to imagine shapes that had never been done. Or that were even impossible to do…shapes that would mislead imagination, that would become pure sculpture.

Louis Durot

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