Bentwood collection by frank gehry 1990 everything i ve always done has been a reaction against people s usual expectations frank gehry stated in an interview he gave for the debut of his furniture collection for knoll i wanted the chairs to.
Sketches frank gehry furniture.
Knoll digs into its archives to recover the original sketches that gave birth to some of the company s most beloved designs from the saarinen tulip chair to the bertoia diamond chair.
Image from the knoll archives.
The chairs are formed of continuous wood strips with no upholstery or underlying chair frame.
February 28 1929 is a canadian born american architect residing in los angeles.
Anyone who loves design on any scale from the shape of a building to the color of the furniture inside of it has probably heard of frank gehry.
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His benches were one single form and consisted of resistance outer corners for limited breakage when in outdoor and indoor spaces.
Frank gehry s bench represents his building precisely.
This frank gehry s project reflects his passion for sailing.
A monolithic form as beautiful as his buildings.
From 1969 to 1973 he designed a furniture line called easy edges.
This building opened in 2003.
In the 1980s gehry returned to furniture design and created his experimental edges furniture again out of corrugated and laminated cardboard.
New bentwood furniture designs consists of five chairs two tables and an ottoman which comprise knoll s gehry collection as well as a number of prototypes and related drawings and photographic murals.
Gehry graduated with a bachelor of architecture degree from the university of southern california in 1954.
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The experimental edges series was art furniture in many ways similar to the work of ron arad and tom dixon who used materials such as corrugated iron plaster industrial girders and wicker.
Frank gehry also reinvented the design of the layola law school in los angeles.
Born frank owen goldberg.
Sketch for the bentwood collection by frank gehry.
A number of his buildings including his private residence have become world renowned attractions his works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 world architecture survey which led.
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Frank gehry was born in 1929 and raised in canada until he immigrated to los angeles california in 1947.
Unquestionably one of the most innovative most popular and most prolific architects of his generation gehry is famous around the world for his unconventional designs and ingenious use of shapes and materials to produce striking sometimes reality.