There is plenty on offer to intrigue and delight the design-conscious, including Poul Henningson’s rare Snake chair of 1931; Gunter Belzig’s first version of a Floris stool of 1967 and a 1950’s four-door living room cabinet from an Italian villa, by Osvaldo Borsani and featuring bronze handles by Lucio Fontana and fabric-covered doors by Fornasetti.
Admire the organic form of Luigi Colani’s TV Relax chaise longue of 1968, which we illustrate right. Produced in a strictly limited
edition, it is estimated at €20,000-25,000.
‘Chaise tongue’ will help lick sale into shape
ON May 6 Vienna’s top auction house, Dorotheum, holds an important Design sale featuring works from the turn of the last century by such luminaries as Adolf Loos, Josef Hofmann and Carlo Bugatti through to some 20 square metres of aluminium flooring from the Berlin Skoda Boutique, designed by Mark Newson in 1992.
