$24,000
USA, 1980 enameled steel, mirror-polished stainless steel, glass 38 w x 29½ h in (97 x 75 cm)
The creation of the Park Place table in 1975 began the collection of tables and chairs now known as the Wedding Gift series.
Made by hand in his Brooklyn studio, Myers did not make these in a numbered edition, but rather considers each a unique work. The entire Wedding Gift series is comprised of five tables and approximately fifteen chairs; of these there are two Park Place tables and eight Mainliner chairs.
The structure of the Park Place table stems from the structural system of Tensegrity developed by Kenneth Snelson and R. Buckminster Fuller in the late 1960s. This elaborate system of synergy, tension and compression was employed by colleague and friend Mark de Suvero in several sculptures of the same period illustrating the importance of the concept within fine art sculpture. Here, two opposing tetrahedrons are held in rigid suspension through both compression and tensile force.
Signed with impressed artist cipher to base: [Fm]. literature: Artists Design Furniture , Domergue, pg. 128 Forrest Myers , Art et Industrie exhibition catalog, pg. 10
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Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2008-05-20
