A wrought and welded steel 'Schöne Aussicht' chair

DESIGNED BY FRANZ WEST, EXECUTED 1989 FOR METAMEMPHIS

Details

A wrought and welded steel 'Schöne Aussicht' chair
Designed by Franz West, executed 1989 for MetaMemphis
Welded and lacquered iron rods in open lattice patterns supported on slender angled rods, flat base
30in. (76.2cm.) high

Provenance

Electum, Munich.
Private collection, London.

Lot Essay

Franz West was born in Vienna in 1947. He attended the Viennese Academy of Fine Art and held his first solo exhibition in 1970. He works primarily as a sculptor, experimenting with ideas of mass and space as well as colour. His work is represented in the MAK in Vienna.
See: he International Design Yearbook, 1990/91, pp. 93 and 230.

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