Mathias Bengtsson Prototype ‘Spun Carbon’ chaise longue ca. 2002 Carbon fiber. 34 x 33 1/8 x 78 1/2 in (86.4 x 84.1 x 199.4 cm)
Provenance Phillips de Pury & Company, ‘Design’, New York, December 14, 2004, lot 245 Exhibited ‘Somewhere Totally Else: The European Design Show’, Design Museum, London, September 27, 2003 – January 4, 2004 Literature Katherine E. Nelson ‘Against the grain: Mathias Bengtsson and Louise Campbell revise Danish Design traditions in two very different ways’, I.D MAGAZINE, September/October 2003, illustrated p. 63 Anders Hammarstrand, Mathias Bengtsson, exh. cat., Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, 2005, n.p. Gareth Williams The Furniture Machine: Furniture since 1990, London, 2006, p. 99 Robert Klanten, et al., Desire: The Shape of Things to Come, Berlin, 2008, p. 115 fig. 2 Catalogue Essay The artist has confirmed the present lot to be the third of three prototypes, and the first completely successful attempt to realize his ‘Spun Carbon’ chaise longue, which is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Phillips de Pury & Company would like to thank Mathias Bengtsson for his assistance cataloguing the present lot. Read More
Mathias Bengtsson Prototype ‘Spun Carbon’ chaise longue ca. 2002 Carbon fiber. 34 x 33 1/8 x 78 1/2 in (86.4 x 84.1 x 199.4 cm)
Provenance Phillips de Pury & Company, ‘Design’, New York, December 14, 2004, lot 245 Exhibited ‘Somewhere Totally Else: The European Design Show’, Design Museum, London, September 27, 2003 – January 4, 2004 Literature Katherine E. Nelson ‘Against the grain: Mathias Bengtsson and Louise Campbell revise Danish Design traditions in two very different ways’, I.D MAGAZINE, September/October 2003, illustrated p. 63 Anders Hammarstrand, Mathias Bengtsson, exh. cat., Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, 2005, n.p. Gareth Williams The Furniture Machine: Furniture since 1990, London, 2006, p. 99 Robert Klanten, et al., Desire: The Shape of Things to Come, Berlin, 2008, p. 115 fig. 2 Catalogue Essay The artist has confirmed the present lot to be the third of three prototypes, and the first completely successful attempt to realize his ‘Spun Carbon’ chaise longue, which is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Phillips de Pury & Company would like to thank Mathias Bengtsson for his assistance cataloguing the present lot. Read More
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