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Frank Gehry Furniture Collection

By Sophie Rivers on Monday, March 3rd, 2008

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Easy Chair from the Frank Gehry Furniture Collection. Designed by Frank Gehry. Manufactured by Heller Furniture.

It’s an architect, it’s a designer… its Frank Gehry! Recognized for his cryptonitic pivot from what is considered mainstream modern design, architect Frank Gehry redefines the art of furniture making.

Working with Heller Furniture, our beloved Guggenheim Museum architect creates the Frank Gehry Furniture Collection (without the usual blueprint). Though not akin to Grandmother’s antique rocking chair, the gnarled curvature of smooth, silver resin seating and multi-purpose cubes bottle up the essence of Gehry’s signature creativity.

A bench, table, sofa, chair, and twisted cubes add an unusual slant to commercial, institutional, and residential spaces - both indoors and out. Manufactured from one piece of roto molded polymer, these hail and child-proof statues withstand extreme conditions as if by second nature. Not to mention their ability to refresh the dinner party conversation lull…

Three hyperextended versions of the boxy cube include: “Left Twist Cube”, “Right Twist Cube”, and “Three Sided Cube”. Gehry replaces the idea of right angles with playful diagonals drawing on the contours of boulders and rock formations, taking you right out of your concrete jungle and into the Alps.

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The group includes three cubes, a bench, an easy chair, a coffee table / sitting unit, and a sofa.

Rain or shiny indoor sprinkler system, Gehry’s steel-clad inspired furniture collection defends his “deconstructivist” style better than a speeding bullet.

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Sophie Rivers is simple yet spontaneous. She navigates through foggy city blocks to the beat of old school hip hop, jazz, and Dylan. When decidedly not anti-social, however, trivia and travel consume her. But in the written world of architecture and design at a major publication, she has latched onto an innate clairvoyance using her background in cultural and environmental studies.

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by Hayden Hughes March 3rd, 2008

Do you think this furniture is comfortable to sit in? I suppose it doesn’t really matter because it’s so amazingly cool anyway. Probably not designed to take a nap, but to impress guests whom are in your home. Great furniture collection.

by syms March 3rd, 2008

i love gehry! as an archictect! and now as a furniture designer also!

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