151: MICHELE DE LUCCHI, Heroic Structure Architectural Model (from the Walls and Heroic Structures series) < Contemporary Design, 18 September 2024 < Auctions

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Michele De Lucchi
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Heroic Structure Architectural Model (from the Walls and Heroic Structures series)

Italy, 2006
hand-hewn and carved birch 9 h × 14 w × 7½ d in (23 × 36 × 19 cm)

estimate: $3,000–5,000

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Incised signature, date, number and inscription to underside ‘Betulla MSE 12 VII 2006 M. De Lucchi’. This example is from the series of fifteen architectural studies.
provenance: Acquired directly from the artist, Collection of Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

While sharpening pencils with a penknife, trimming the lead and whittling it down to the longest, smoothest, and finest possible point without actually breaking it, I realized that I enjoy shaping wood, and carving its surface with the blade, just as much as I love drawing with a pencil on a sheet of paper. So I moved from the lightness and quietness of the pencil to the roughness and din of the power saw, but without sacrificing my effort to treat the wood tenderly, as if it were paper, with effects that may be random but never mechanical.

—Michele de Lucchi

Michele de Lucchi b. 1951

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Italian architect and designer Michele de Lucchi was born in Ferrara in 1951. He studied in Padua and Florence founding the radical “Gruppe Cavart” for experimental architectural design. After meeting Ettore Sottsass, he was invited to join Studio Alchimia in Milan and was also involved with the Memphis Group design movement. In 1975, de Lucchi graduated in Architecture from the Florence University then taught for two years as an academic assistant.

De Lucchi’s expansive range of design projects includes furniture, interior design, lighting, and architecture. He has designed for European companies such as Artemide, Alias, Unifor, Hermès and Alessi. From 1992 to 2002 he was Director of Design for Olivetti developing experimental projects for Philips, Siemens, Compaq Computers, and Vitra. In 1998 he founded the architectural studio aMDL, opening offices in Milan and Rome, and designed corporate work spaces for Deutcsche Bank and UniCredit. His wide range of architectural projects includes the Expo 2015 pavilions for the City of Milan and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

A widely respected educator, he was appointed to be Professor of the Design and Art Faculty at the University of Venice in 2001, Professor at the Design Faculty of the Politecnico of Milan in 2008, and awarded an honorary doctorate from Kingston University in 2006. His work is included in the collections of the Neues Museum Berlin, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Triennale di Milano.

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