Ed Weinberger

designed 1993
number two from an edition of two

Collection of the artist

Ed Weinberger: Solo Exhibition, 20 Year Retrospective, Galerie Jean-Jacques Dutko, Paris, November 2002-February 2003

Overall excellent condition. The top with faint and minor surface scratches. One dark discoloration measuring less than a quarter inch to the top which is inherent in the material and not damage. The aluminum legs are in excellent condition with felt pads attached to the feet.
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Over the past twenty-five years, Ed Weinberger has created an acclaimed body of work now consisting of some twenty-eight furniture designs that challenge the presumptions of architectural construction, symmetry, balance, and harmony while remaining rooted in the principles of  traditional craft to an exquisite  degree of precision and acuity. In so doing Weinberger has elevated the design of furniture to a personal mode of inquiry that also reflects his fascination with structural paradox and monumental archaic forms. Weinberger has written that he seeks to "elicit something of the original strangeness and shift in orientation that characterize the roots of Modern furniture design." Among his influences are Chareau, Maillart, Mackintosh and Rietveld.

 

Recently, Weinberger was one of a small circle of contemporary designers invited to create a work for Chareau's Maison du Verre, an honor that firmly established him as a spiritual heir to the early masters of modernism.

 

The lot offered here is from a small series of "Winged Tripèd" works, which also include an edition of desks and Monoped side tables. It is the first time Weinberger's work, hoarded by a select group of collectors, has appeared at auction.

 

 

"The Winged Tripèd Coffee Table is a double-cantilevered mass suspended on three legs as if defying the principles of structural integrity, yet resolutely grounded; and that explores the privileged status of the perpendicular."

 

-Ed Weinberger