PERISHED COLLECTION, FOUR PANEL SCREEN, 2006

Details

STUDIO JOB (F. 2000)
PERISHED COLLECTION, FOUR PANEL SCREEN, 2006
number four from an edition of six, macassar with laser-cut bird's-eye maple marquetry
each panel 71 in. (180.3 cm.) high; 20 in. (50 cm.) wide; 2 in. (5 cm.) deep
inset designer's mark Job

Literature

R. Kianten, S. Lovell & B. Meyer (eds.), Furnish: Furniture and International Design for the 21st Century, Berlin, 2007, p.17 (example illustrated)

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The Perished Collection revives seventeenth-century Flemish marquetry techniques to document the skeletons of extinct animal species, and comprises of a bench, cabinet, table and the present screen, each produced in an edition of six. The collection absorbs and synthesises the fine, the graphic, and the applied arts to address issues of ecological permanance and environmental historicism, yielding an expressionistic symbolism superimposed upon an absurdist, semi-functional monumentalism.

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