Rare "Gardening" bench, 1999
Resin, straw. 55 x 29 x 16 1/4 in. (139.7 x 73.7 x 41.3 cm.)
Produced for Droog Design, The Netherlands. One of four existing examples.
PROVENANCE Friedman Benda, New York
LITERATURE Droog & Dutch Design, From Product to Fashion, exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2000, pp. 3, 66 and 155; Anneke Moors and Renny Ramakers, eds., Simply Droog, Amsterdam, 2006, p. 161; Droog Design, A Human Touch, exh. cat., Amsterdam, 2006, p. 146
The present lot is one of four existing examples. The other three are held in the collections of Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Centraal Museum Utrecht, and at Droog institutional collection. ‘Droog’ in Dutch means ‘dry’, as in food without garnish, wine without sugar, or...
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