Art
Chinese Platform Chair by Garry Knox Bennett
- Item Number
- 106
- Estimated Value
- 7500 USD
- Opening Bid
- 2498 USD
Item Description
Chinese Platform Chair #3
Created by Garry Knox Bennett
Using bold new forms and constantly expanding traditional boundaries, Bennett (b. 1934) calls himself "a damn good furniture maker," but insists he’s not an artist. Despite this humility, his work, inspired by well-known furniture designers and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, George Nakashima and Gerrit Rietveld show wit and imagination that bring the objects to life. His Chinese Platform Chair #3 incorporates materials such as Douglas fir with gouache, beads and 23K gold leaf. Its seat has been machine caned. This platform chair is as a result of a chair Bennett did for the Peabody Essex Museum exhibition (invitational) "Inspired by China" several years ago. In making the platform chair for their exhibition (which was a take-off of some classic Chinese design elements) he really liked the scale and shapes and therefore did a small series of them. According to Bennett, “this is a very comfortable chair to use for sitting meditation. Many people find it easier to sit above the floor rather than on the floor.”
Bennett lives and works in Oakland, California. His work is represented by private collections as well as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Mint Museum of Art+Design, NC; Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; Atlanta Museum of Art; Montreal Museum of Art; Oakland Museum, CA; Racine Art Museum, WI; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Dimensions 43 1/2" x 24" x 24"
This chair has been donated by the artist himself.
Donated By:
Garry Knox Bennett
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