Collection Prototype for "First" Chair

Prototype for "First" Chair

Workshop of Memphis Milano , Artist Michele de Lucchi , Designer
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About the Artwork

Prototype for "First" Chair

1982

Workshop of Memphis Milano (Artist) Italian, active 1980 - 1987 Michele de Lucchi (Designer) Italian, born 1951

Aluminum and wood

Overall: 35 × 26 × 19 inches (88.9 × 66 × 48.3 cm)

Furniture

Contemporary Art after 1950

Founders Society Purchase, Clarence L. and Henrietta C. Ascher Fund, Andrew L. and Gayle Shaw Camden Contemporary and Decorative Arts Fund, Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund, and funds from Jonathan Holtzman, Mark Neithercut, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert (Buzz and Jan) Silverman, Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman, Lillian Shaye-Hirsch and Bernard Hirsch, Mary Denison, Maurice Cohen, Larry and Susann Spilkin, Mr. and Mrs. David Goldburg and Mrs. Paul Zuckerman

1988.13

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(Urban Architecture, Inc., Pontiac, Michigan, USA);
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 2/3 (1988): p. 28 (fig. 19).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

workshop of Memphis/Milano; Michele de Lucchi, Prototype for "First" Chair, 1982, aluminum and wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Clarence L. and Henrietta C. Ascher Fund, Andrew L. and Gayle Shaw Camden Contemporary and Decorative Arts Fund, et al., 1988.13.

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