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Gruppe Pentagon

Meyer Voggenreiter (1954 – lives in Cologne) – Reinhard Müller (1957 – lives in Cologne)

Library - with 66 shelf boards, desk top, seat and drawer storage container. 1988

Steel sheet, beveled; steel square profile, welded / writing desk and seat: steel sheet, wooden plate, covered in leather; container: extension mounted on rollers, lighting. 243 × 169 × 136 cm (95 ⅝ × 66 ½ × 53 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Gruppe Pentagon. Library - with 66 shelf boards, desk top, seat and drawer storage container. 1988.

Estimate:

EUR 12,000

 

- 15,000

USD 13,400

 

- 16,800

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.12.2016

Information

Steel sheet, beveled; steel square profile, welded / writing desk and seat: steel sheet, wooden plate, covered in leather; container: extension mounted on rollers, lighting. 243 × 169 × 136 cm (95 ⅝ × 66 ½ × 53 ½ in.).

Related literature: Beatrix Schomberg: Pentagon. Informal Design, Cologne 1990, p. 83 / Petra Eisele: BRDesign. Deutsches Design als Experiment seit den 1960er Jahren, Cologne 2005 / Tobias Hoffmann und Markus Zehentbauer (eds.): Schrill Bizarr Brachial. Das Neue Deutsche Design der 80er Jahre, ex. cat., Berlin 2014.

1988 Galerie Art To Use, Frankfurt am Main (acquired directly from the Pentagon Group)