Legacy of Style: Works from a Private Collection 
24 May 2023
Legacy of Style: Works from a Private Collection 
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Johanna Grawunder

Lastrini Arielle Bianco (from the Street Glow series)

USA, 2005
laser-etched clear acrylic, aluminum, LED light 30½ h × 63 w × 12¾ d in (77 × 160 × 32 cm)
estimate: $7,000–9,000
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This work is number 4 from the edition of 6 published by Galerie Italienne, Paris.
provenance: ammann//projects, London

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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Architect of Light

Five Things to Know about Johanna Grawunder

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Grawunder earned a degree in architecture from California Polytechnic State University in 1984.


2.
After graduation she moved to Italy and worked for Sottsass Associati, where she later became a partner in 1989.


3.
In 2001, she left Sottsass and founded her own studio, creating work across a spectrum of design from large-scale public projects to limited-edition furniture.


4.
Grawunder's specialty is lighting: sculptural installations and objects that complement and enhance the architecture that surrounds them.


5.
Two of her primary concerns are energy efficiency and longevity and, to that end, she utilizes fluorescent tubing and favors basic, durable materials such as stainless steel, steel cables, and painted metal.

I’m an architect by training. I like straight lines. It doesn’t mean I won’t do a curve now and then, but I do like straight lines. I like the idea of order and geometry and to follow the basics, which would be technology, material science, function.

Johanna Grawunder

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