69. Toyo Ito
b. 1941
‘Ripples’ bench, designed 2003, produced 2005 Maple, beech, cherry, walnut, iroko. 40.5 x 200 x 50 cm (15 7⁄8 x 78 3⁄4 x 19 5⁄8 in.) Manufactured by Horm, Pasiano di Pordenone, Italy. Underside with printed paper label MADE IN ITALY. Estimate £5,000-7,000 $7,700-10,700 €6,800-9,600 Provenance Casa Argentaurum, Ghent Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature ‘Toyo Ito: Ripples on the Water’, Domus, no. 872, July 2004, p. 102 ‘Toyo Ito Made in Italy - Itinerant Exhibition’, Domus, no. 876, December 2004, n.p.
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