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Frank Gehry

Hat Trick chairs, set of eight

KnollStudio
Canada/USA, 1990 / 2001
laminated maple 33¼ h × 19 w × 19 d in (84 × 48 × 48 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $4,410
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Branded manufacturer's mark to underside of each example 'Made in USA Knoll F. Gehry'.
provenance: Collection of Martin and Enid Packard
literature: Frank Gehry: New Bentwood Furniture Designs, Hanks, pg. 74
Conceived in 1990, the Hat Trick chair made its debut in 1992 at the Frank Gehry: New Furniture Prototypes show at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Everything I’ve always done has been a reaction against the usual expectations of the furniture market. I wanted the chair to come out of my own work, the shapes of my buildings.

Frank Gehry

The Collection Becomes the Mosaic

Works from the Collection of Martin and Enid Packard

Enid and Martin Packard

When describing their collection to the Calvin College Center Art Gallery for an upcoming publication, Martin Packard reflected, “the collection becomes the mosaic.” The visual diversity invoked by Martin is evident in the works themselves, spanning multiple genres from decorative to fine art, folk art to postmodernism, and everything in between. In their early days, the Grand Rapids-based couple combined their individual perspectives on collecting, with Enid’s trained artist's eye complementing Martin’s art historical interests. As their collection expanded, they honed their focus and learned to “trust their own judgment.” Over the following decades, guided by principle and endless curiosity, Martin and Enid assembled an important collection of works by some of the most influential artists of the 20th century. 

Frank Gehry b. 1929

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Frank Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Canada. His family moved to Los Angeles where Gehry would attend the University of Southern California earning his bachelor degree in architecture in 1954. In 1956 Gehry moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he completed only two years of the program before returning to Los Angeles. Back in California, Gehry worked for Hideo Sasaki, Pereira & Luckman, Victor Gruen & Associates and André Remondet before starting his own firm, Frank Gehry and Associates in 1962.

Early projects in his career, such as his Easy Edges furniture line (1969-1973) comprised of chairs, stools and tables made of stacked corrugated cardboard, and his 1978 remodel of his Santa Monica residence using industrial items such as chain-link fencing, corrugated metal, wire-reinforced glass and plywood exhibit Gehry’s innovative use of materials and originality in form. By the 1980s Gehry was established in the field and in 1989 he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his experimental and extraordinary approach to design. Gehry rose to fame with important structures and projects such as the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (1997) and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (2003). Today Gehry is well-known for his distinct, artistic style.

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