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Hat Trick Chair by Frank Gehry for Knoll
By Frank Gehry, Knoll
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
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By Frank Gehry, Knoll
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1992. Price is for the set. Contact us if you’d like to purchase a single item.
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By Frank Gehry, Knoll
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1992. Price is for the set. Contact us if you’d like to purchase a single item.
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1990s American Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
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By Knoll, Frank Gehry
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By Frank Gehry, Knoll
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"Hat Trick" Armchair by Franck Gehry, 1990
By Frank Gehry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Exceptional chair
Knoll International American Maple Limited Edition
Measures: 59 x 57 x 85 cms
perfect condition new
circa 19900
3900 euros.
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Frank Gehry Hat For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal frank gehry hat for your home. Each frank gehry hat for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, maple and altuglas. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer frank gehry hat, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Each frank gehry hat bearing mid-century modern or modern hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made frank gehry hat over the years, but those crafted by Frank Gehry and Knoll are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much is a Frank Gehry Hat?
A frank gehry hat can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $4,372, while the lowest priced sells for $1,280 and the highest can go for as much as $15,112.
Frank Gehry for sale on 1stDibs
With magnificent buildings such as the Guggenheim Bilbao, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the new Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Frank Gehry has changed the nature and spirit of contemporary architecture. Yet the world’s best-known living architect has also enjoyed a prolific career as a designer of artful and functional objects, ranging from furniture to jewelry, that even at smaller scale are as lively and captivating as his architectural designs.
Gehry was born in Toronto and moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. He received a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California in 1954 and — after several years of casting about that included a stint in the U.S. Army and studies at Harvard — Gehry opened his architectural practice in L.A. in 1962.
Idiosyncratic renovations to his small, traditional house in Santa Monica — such as cladding portions of the exterior in chain-link fencing and corrugated metal — drew attention to Gehry in architectural circles. Corporate and institutional commissions added to his reputation, culminating in the global acclaim that greeted the opening of the Guggenheim Bilbao in 1997. But the combination of visual dynamism and structural integrity expressed by that building had been evident for decades in Gehry’s designs. In 1972 he introduced a much-admired line of furniture he called Easy Edges. The curves and flowing lines of the pieces, which include the Wiggle chair, seem antithetical to the material are made from: cardboard — a presumably flimsy material that, when stacked, laminated and folded, is actually extraordinarily sturdy.
Many of Gehry’s designs feature an abstracted fish motif. For the architect, it is a symbol of vitality, strength and flexibility. The fish appears in a group of 1982 plastic lamps created for Formica (and exhibited by the Jewish Museum in New York in 2010). Gehry used the motif in crystal goblets for Swid Powell (1990), his Pito kettle for Alessi (1992) and as earrings for a 2006 jewelry collection for Tiffany that also includes torqued rings, necklaces and bangles.
Gehry returned to furniture design in 1992 with a remarkably energetic line of furniture for Knoll with frames and seating made of bent, lightweight wooden strops. (The pieces' names, such as Power Play and Cross Check, derive from ice hockey.) In 2004, Heller released a group of twisted, faceted furnishings in molded polyethylene meant to evoke Gehry’s architecture. But — whether its tableware, jewelry or furniture — all Gehry’s designs do that--sharing an animated aesthetic built on a solid foundational core. To possess a piece of Gehry design is to own one of his buildings, in miniature.
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