Wallpaper* Magazine's Tony Chambers Curates Cutting-Edge Design

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  Ron Arad, 'All Light Long' Table, From the 'Paperwork' Collection.
  Estimate £50,000–70,000.

  Arad is the eternal innovator and experimenter – always pushing the potential of new technology – and here he really flexes his material muscles. Carbon-coated honeycomb paper makes 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:this huge table as strong as an ox, yet light as a feather.
  
  

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  Pablo Reinoso, Unique 'Vertical' Bench, 2016.
  Estimate £30,000–50,000.

  In 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:this bench from the ‘꧃Spaghetti’ series , the timber winds like lianas, regaining its freedom. Through the exceptional craftsmanship of Reinoso, a functional bench turns into a living piece of furniture, offering a surprise at every turn. Between the useful and the beautiful, between art and design, between poetry and symbol, everything in his works intertwines.
  
  

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  Joris Laarman, 'Bone Rocker' Armchair, 2009.
  Estimate £170,000–200,000.

  This is a mesmerising mix of natural, organic form and digital-technology production. Resulting from extensive scientific and material research and using computer algorithms to simulate natural growth, Laarman’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:marble resin Bone Rocker is a kind of high-tech art nouveau. If Mother Nature designed a chair, it would probably look like this.
  
  
  
   
  
  

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  Jasper Morrison, 'Wing-Nut' Chair, 1985.
  Estimate 10,000–15,000.

  168开꧋奖官方开奖网站查询:A piece of huge interest and impꦍortance , as it was designed and hand-built by Morrison himself while a student at the Royal College of Art in 1985. There are many clues in the simplicity of form, materials and construction to what he would go on to create and stand for over the subsequent 30-plus years.
  
  
  
   
  
  

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  Studio Job, Cabinet from the Perished collection, 2006.
  Estimate £40,000–60,000.

  Playful and joyful at first glance, there is often a dark humour lurking beneath the studio’s work. 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This cabinet , made from Makassar ebony-veneered wood with maple inlay, incorporates the fine crafts of French 17th-century marquetry found in pieces by André-Charles Boulle – a true merging of traditional techniques and modern digital production.
  
  
  
   
  
  

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  Fernando and Humberto Campana, 'Cake' Stool, designed 2008.
  Estimate £15,000–20,000.

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This is upcycling, Brazilian-style . The 'Cake' stool is the perfect manifestation of the Campana brothers’ aesthetic and working methods, and one of their most alluring designs.
  
  

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  Poul Henningsen, Ceiling Light with type 4 4 ½ / 4 shades, circa 1931.
  Estimate £12,000–15,000.

  The 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:lighting designs of Poul Henningsen were nothing short of revolutionary. Materials were of great relevance to Henningsen’s designs, and he experimented widely in both metal and glass shades in his desire to find the perfect light source.
  
  

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  Ron Arad, 'Blo-Void 1' Chair, 2006.
  Estimate £50,000–80,000.

  With 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:his ‘Void’ series chairs , Arad combines vacuum technology with a secret tinting process to create organic forms based on the traditional rocking chair. The result is a stunning genre-changing design that is a meeting of sculpture and design.
  
  

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  Hélène de Saint Lager, Unique 'Table 9 flaques' Coffee Table, 2014.
  Estimate 4,000–6,000.

  Playing with the notion of gravity, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:this piece presents itself as a frozen moment in time of an upside down metal casting process. Nine streams of casting pour upwards and gather into a main table top surface, revealing all the qualities of raw cast metal.
  
  

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  Tord Boontje, 'Petit Jardin' Chair, 2006.
  Estimate 12,000–18,000.

  Tord Boontje's romanticist approach to design has led him to include storytelling, together with a strong sense of the presence of nature, within his work. 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:'Petit Jardin' is like sitting inside a garden of plants and flowers with twisted, tangled branches creating a bench and armchair shape.
  
  

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  Jeroen Verhoeven, 'Lectori Salutem' Desk, 2010.
  Estimate £100,000–150,000.

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:'Lectori Salutem' is a sublime example of contemporary Dutch design. Verhoeven chose steel for its ‘contrast between its apparent inflexibility as a raw material and the fluid shapes of 'Lectori Salutem'.’ The design references historical furniture of the past and combines it with computer aided technology and craftsmanship of the 21st century with a deeply personal narrative close to the designer.
  
  

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  Studio Job, Unique 'Chartres' Cabinet, from the 'Aftermath' Series, 2009-2012.
  Estimate £70,000–100,000.

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This 'Chartres' cabinet is a unique object, conceived in the midst of the financial crisis in 2009. It is the first in a series called Aftermath, and is the only version with oak doors inlaid with ebony and 24k gold referencing the original Church doors, religious sculptures and reliquaries.
  
  

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  Josef Frank, 'Flora' Bureau, model no. 2131, designed circa 1950-1951, executed 1952.
  Estimate £20,000–30,000.

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The 'Flora' bureau is a perfect example of Josef Frank’s highly personal style, which incorporates elements of Viennese elegance and Swedish functionalism. For this project Frank used hand-coloured botanical paper prints from Carl Lindman’s book Bilder ur Nordens Flora, which he then delicately applied onto the mahogany front of the piece. Contrast between the delicate floral patterns and heavy wooden form instils the cabinet with light, playful and organic sense.
  
  

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  Michael Young, Unique Writing Desk, 2008.
  Estimate £40,000–60,000.

  Michael Young’s work began to gain attention very soon after he graduated from Kingston University in 1992. His minimalist design style became renowned for its sophisticated level of quality. 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This piece is synonymous with the designer's early breakthrough into round-cornered and colourful furniture contrasting with the sober minimalist style of the early 1990s.
  
  

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  Gio Ponti, Bench from the Palazzo Liviano, University of Padova, 1939.
  Estimate £50,000–70,000.

  Gio Ponti is regarded as one of the main references of Italian design of the 20th century. During the 1930s and 1940s he received many commissions for educational spaces, including the Palazzo Liviano, at the University of Padua. Elegant, modern, well equipped and comfortable, the building also included a wide range of commissioned unique furniture, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:including this bench , which was integrated with a view to optimising the learning space.
  
  

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  Marc Newson, Unique 'Wood' Chair, 1988.
  Estimate 8,000–12,000.

  Marc Newson is an Australian industrial designer best known for designs involving areas as varied as aircraft, surfing, car design, pen and watch making and even hunting gun design amongst others. This early and unique example of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:his iconic ‘Wood’ chair retains excellent provenance from Teruo Kurosaki of iconic Tokyo based design gallery Idée. 
  
  

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  Joseph Walsh, Unique 'Erosion I' Dining Table, 2009.
  Estimate 80,000–120,000.

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This exquisite and unique table is constructed using ash wood, a material Joseph Walsh has worked in for a long time. Its open grain lent itself to Walsh’s sculptural concept for this example. The pigment in the white oil used to finish the table emphasises the wood grain and the tables highly figured form.
  
  

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