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Peter Shire Memphis Milano Brazil Table in Lacquered Wood, Italy, circa 1981
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Peter Shire (b. 1947)
An exceptionally imaginative and dynamic architectural console, dining table, and desk by Peter Shire for Ettore Sottsass' Memphis Group. A striking interplay of geometric forms in lacquered wood, this asymmetric, multi-purpose piece features an elongated triangular top in sunflower yellow. It's raised on an emerald green shark-fin leg that slices the air with brio, offset by a sharp black isosceles base in a rounded salmon-pink foot that recalls a halved log of spam.
A founding member of the Memphis Group alongside Ettore Sottsass and Marco Zanini — and, with Sottsass, the movement's best-known talent — Shire creates a dialogue between form and surface in boundary-stretching works that live at the intersection of art and design. His rejection of modernist rigidity and playful subversion of Bauhaus, Art Deco, and Futurist modalities in a visually unexpected new language make him an essential contributor to the postmodern critical debate.
Italy/ USA, c.1981.
80" W x 31 1/4 D x 28 1/4 H.
Literature: Memphis: Furniture Milano, manufacturer's catalogue, 1981. Memphis: Research, Experiences, Failures and Successes of New Design, Barbara Radice, p. 58.
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- Place of Origin
- Date of Manufacturecirca 1981
- Period1980-1989
- Materials and TechniquesLacqueredWood
- Condition
- WearWear consistent with age and use.
- DimensionsH 28.25 in. x W 80 in. x D 31.25 in.H 71.76 cm x W 203.2 cm x D 79.38 cm
- Seller LocationNew York, NY
- Reference NumberLU3576316672852
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