Essential Design 
25 April 2024
Essential Design 
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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Chippendale chair

Knoll International
USA, 1985
laminate over plywood 37½ h × 23¼ w × 18½ d in (95 × 59 × 47 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $2,016
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Chair features the Grandmother pattern laminate designed by Denise Scott Brown. Partial paper manufacturer's label to underside ‘Knoll Int.'. Sold with Knoll: Venturi Collection catalog, poster, invitations and folder.
provenance: Collection of a Knoll Executive | Rago, 20th/21st Century Design, 2-3 March 2013, Lot 1050 | Private Collection
literature: Knoll: Venturi Collection catalog, unpaginated Out of the Ordinary, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates: Architecture, Urbanism, Design, Brownlee, DeLong and Hiesinger, pg. 209 Knoll: A Modernist Universe, Lutz, ppg. 214-215 1000 Chairs, Fiell and Fiell, pg. 549

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They’re examples of Postmodernism and I realized maybe this is the reason I like difficult furniture or atonal furniture. You don’t go, “Okay’s where’s my chairs?” You go “Holy shit what is that thing?” You have to think about it. It invades you and makes your feel uncomfortable in a lot of ways, and that’s the point. It opens up dialogue.

Jim Walrod on Venturi

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