Tag Archives for Eileen Gray
6 June 2012
The Morality of the $1,000,000 Chair
I heard that Commes des Garcons has a t-shirt for $2,000; perhaps you can wear it while you sit on your $28,000,000 Eileen Gray armchair admiring your $87,000,000 Rothko.
Categories/ Collectible Design Market, Eileen Gray, Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint Laurent
31 May 2012
The Charitable Chair
Phillips, the auction house that coined the term “design art” for a sale in 1999, is apparently sick of the name and has stopped using it. The reasoning, said Alexander Payne of Phillips was that “we were getting tired of [the term] being used incorrectly.” How the term design art could be misused, misconstrued and…
Categories/ Eileen Gray, marc newson, zaha hadid