Design Life:
The Benjamin Pardo
and David Gresham
Collection

On February 13th, Rago/Wright presents Design Life: The Benjamin Pardo and David Gresham Collection, featuring over 100 lots of carefully curated designs and artwork from the 20th and 21st centuries. Pardo and Gresham are passionate collectors and trained architects with decades of experience in the design industry—Pardo as design director for Knoll and Gresham as vice president of design at Steelcase Design—which informed their impeccable ability to combine a variety of modern objects, furniture, and art into what has been described as a cozy, livable form of modernism.

Auction / Lambertville
13 February 2024
11 am eastern
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Hans J. Wegner Custom Valet chair, model PP250 3,000–5,000 ✸ Roy Lichtenstein Crying Girl (Castelli mailer) $1,000–1,500

From exceptional prints by Donald Judd and Richard Serra to ceramics and furniture by Italian design extraordinaire Ettore Sottsass, their genuine love of architecture and design and nuanced understanding of how the two co-exist is evident in each and every work they acquired.

Donald Judd Untitled (six works) $40,000–60,000

Ceramics by Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass

Alzata centerpiece

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $5,670

Ettore Sottsass

Cherries teapot (from the Indian Memory series)

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $1,197

Ettore Sottsass

Vase (from the Rocchetti series)

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $1,134

Ettore Sottsass

Lapislazzuli teapot (from the Indian Memory series)

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $1,260

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona daybed $5,000–7,000 ✸ Robert Mangold Five Color Frame $2,000–3,000

Design Life: The Benjamin Pardo and David Gresham Collection

Preview / Lambertville
6 – 13 February 2024
11 am – 4 pm, Monday - Friday

Auction / Lambertville
13 February 2024
11 am eastern

For additional information
609 397 9374
info@ragoarts.com