Mid Century Modern Furniture & Design
Timed Online Auction, 6 - 18 September 2024
Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 45 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 23 450
About this Item
Vladimir Kagan (attribution) 'Model 176SC' floating curved sofa, America, 1950s
with curved seat and back upholstered in cream suede material, raised on organically sculpted frame and leg supports, 89cm high, 78cm wide, 150cm long
Notes
Vladimir Kagan , the son of a German immigrant cabinet maker and art collector, was one of America's foremost modernist furniture designers. His work is best known for it's avant-garde craftmanship combined with comfort, functionality and organic forms.
First designed in 1952, the Floating Curved Sofa united two early Kagan signatures- curved shapes and elegantly sculpted wooden frames.
His clients included Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra and Andy Warhol and as noted by Zaha Hadid, "While the works of his contemporaries are definitive, finite and frozen, you experience a wonderful sense of liberation in the nonlinear, organic forms of Vladimir's collections".
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