Vitra Wiggle Side Chair by Frank Gehry Wiggle Chair by Vitra Designed by Frank Gehry in 1968-72 Frank Gehry Architect Furniture Collection by Vitra Frank Gehry Wiggle Chair by Vitra, the most beautiful modern chair ever made! The Gehry Wiggle Chair was designed by notable Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank O. Gehry in the period between 1968 to 1972 and is a Stardust Staff Pick. Perhaps the most beautiful chair ever created, the Wiggle Chair is a real museum piece! This sculptural modern Wiggle Chair is an icon of modern furniture design with timeless appeal. In the 1960s a trend for cost-efficient and lightweight materials led to experiments with using cardboard in furniture design. Designer and architect Frank Gehry developed a cardboard material called 'edge board' that used multiple layers of corrugated cardboard glued together to make it strong enough to be practical. Frank Gehry named it the Easy Edges furniture line because of its smooth and attractive curves.
The Wiggle Chair is without question the most celebrated design in Frank Gehry's oeuvre. This modern accent chair has an attractive sculptural shape which compliments any interior. A single Wiggle Chair looks stunning when used in the living room, bedroom or office as an accent chair. The Frank Gehry Wiggle Chair is made by Vitra in Europe. The Wiggle Chair by Frank Gehry is available from Stardust with Free Shipping and a Low Price Guarantee. Frank Gehry Vitra Wiggle Side Chair. The Frank Gehry Wiggle Chair is one of our favorite pieces of modern furniture. It successfully bridges the boundaries between art and furniture. A beautiful and classic Frank Gehry design with timeless appeal. The Wiggle Chair was designed by the leading contemporary architect Frank Gehry. Frank Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Frank Gehry is known for his use of futuristic shapes and unusual materials for both his architecture and furniture.
With the series "Easy Edges" from 1972, he succeeded in lending such everyday materials as cardboard a new aesthetic dimension. Although the Wiggle Chair appears unbelievably simple, it is incredible robust and stable while feeling at the same time velvety soft to the touch. Approximately 60 layers of cardboard are held together by hidden screws with a fiberboard edging. Four models from the series - Side Chair, Wiggle Side Chair, Dining Table and Low Table Set - are in production by Vitra and available from Stardust. Vitra Product Code: 210 186 01 Material: corrugated cardboard, hardboard edging Dimensions: 34.25"H x 13.75"W x 24"D Use: indoor, dining room, bedroom, office Product Category: furniture, chairs View all from Frank Gehry View all from Vitra Usually ships in 10-12 weeks Free shipping, insurance, tracking number! 110% Low Price Match Guarantee on Vitra design*! No additional Sales Tax on Vitra*! Friendly and Knowledgeable Customer Service!
The page you were looking for could not be found. The page may have been moved or no longer exist but here's some options: for pages relating to the Powerhouse Museum, its collections, exhbitions, and events; .au for those relating to the Sydney Observatory. Street address: 500 Harris Street Ultimo, Sydney NSW 2007 Australia Telephone: 612 9217 0111 Fax: 612 9217 0333 › Seating furniture › chairs › Seating furniture › Seating objects Frank Gehry is well known for his use of unusual materials. With his "Easy Edges" furniture he succeeded in giving a new aesthetic dimension to such an everyday material as cardboard. Despite their appearing bafflingly simple, the "Easy Edges" are nonetheless constructed with an architect's care and are extremely robust and sturdy. Having given them a makeover from the world of colour, Gehry has given the "Easy Edges" a new dimension - colourfulness. Designed by Frank Gehry in 1972, the classic Wiggle Chair helped secure the now-legendary architect-designer's place on the international stage.
Recognizing the potential of cardboard for furniture-building, Gehry gave new life to an oft-discarded material. “One day I saw a pile of corrugated cardboard outside of my office—the material which I prefer for building architecture models—and I began to play with it; to glue it together and to cut it into shapes with a hand saw and a pocket knife.” These experiments resulted in a material that Gehry called Edge Board, which allowed him to develop sculptural furniture forms such as this piece, part of the Easy Edges collection.This particular piece was produced by Vitra in 1992. It is in its original condition and features the maker's label.The above quotation by Frank O. Gehry was published in Marilyn Hoffmann's “Liberated Design,” The Christian Science Monitor Boston, April 19, 1972. Very Good — This vintage item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use. Miniature Wiggle Side Chair Each Vitra miniature is true to the original in construction and materials, and reduced in size on a scale of 1:6.
Each miniature is packaged in a wooden box, accompanied by an informational booklet. Production notes: Each of the delicate objects are made by hand; on average, each miniature requires five hours of careful manual work. Ongoing quality control ensures that every miniature corresponds to its larger original in terms of finishing, details and materials. As early as the 1960s, cardboard furniture emerged as a cheap and light alternative to traditional furniture. At that time, slotting and folding as well as supports were used to ensure that the cardboard could bear sufficient weight. Nevertheless, cardboard furniture hardly had a chance against plastic furniture, which was equally light. Frank O. Gehry discovered a process which enabled cardboard furniture to be made in massive blocks – cardboard sculptures, as it were. »One day I saw a stack of corrugated cardboard in my office; it was the material I used to build my architectural models. And I started playing around with it, gluing it together and then cutting it into shape with a handsaw and a pocket-knife«.
Gehry called the material made of corrugated cardboard glued in layers that ran at right angles to each other »Edge Board«. In 1972 he brought out a series of extraordinarily stable cardboard furniture called »Easy Edges«. H14.5 x W6.5 x D9.5 cm Materials: Corrugated cardboard, fiberboard. Frank GehryFrank Gehry, born 1929 in Toronto, Canada, earned a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California before studying urban planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. In 1962 he founded the architectural firm Frank Gehry & Associates in Los Angeles. He designed the cardboard furniture series Easy Edges between 1969-72. Over the years he has taught at several universities, including Harvard and Yale, where he served as Charlotte-Davenport-Professorship of Architecture (1982, 1985, 1987-89) and where he still teaches. Gehry has received numerous honorary doctorates from institutions including the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Edinburgh.