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MAASTRICHT, NL - TEFAF Design, the stylish
newcomer to TEFAF Maastricht in 2009, will exhibit works by some of the greatest
names in the history of design when the world’s most influential art and
antiques fair opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress
Center) in the southern Netherlands from March 12-21,
2010. They will include a suite by Frank Lloyd Wright, a unique
sculpture by Gio Ponti, a rare chair by Le Corbusier and furniture that Otto
Wagner made for his own apartment. TEFAF Design will also move to a new location
within the Fair. The nine specialist dealers will exhibit next to but be
entirely separate from the TEFAF Modern section of The European Fine Art Fair.
Their ranks will be reinforced by the Gallery Fancsaly from Milan, one of the
world’s leading dealers in 20th century Italian glass and design.
 L’Arc
en Seine from Paris will bring a 'coffee table' dating from c1940 by the French
designer Paul Dupré-Lafon (€280,000), a Max Ingrand 'desk' and Cat Butler, a
superb 'bronze' by Diego Giacometti depicting a cat standing on its hind legs
(€75,000). Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer of Vienna will exhibit a pair of 'mahogany
armchairs' inlaid with mother of pearl designed by the Austrian Josef Urban and
executed by Sandor Jaray in 1908 (€95,000). Urban later moved to America and
became head of stage design at the Boston and Metropolitan Operas and then
director of the New York branch of Wiener Werkstätte, the production community
of artists, designers and architects. Bel Etage will also bring furniture by
Austria’s most important architect Otto Wagner to TEFAF Design. Wagner liked to
include a flat for himself in many of the apartment houses that he built and Bel
Etage will exhibit furniture made for a building in Döblergasse in Vienna’s 7th
District.
A suite of three c.1955 armchairs and an ottoman in walnut and
weaved wool by Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, interior designer and
writer, will be one of the highlights on the stand of Galerie Eric Philippe of
Paris along with a copper and brass chandelier by the Finnish designer Paavo
Tynell, dating from the same period. Another northern European designer will be
featured by Philippe Denys of Brussels who will exhibit a Grand Piano made of
natural leather, chromed steel, lacquered wood, ivory and transparent celluloid.
It was designed by Poul Henningsen in Denmark in 1931.
Gallery Fancsaly
of Milan, the new exhibitors in TEFAF Design, will show "Cut Out Thought", the
only brass sculpture ever made by the Italian architect-designer Gio Ponti and
executed by Sabattini in Milan in 1976. It was meant to be a joke, the
expression of his thoughts when sketching a female portrait. The work was once
part of the Lisa Licitra Ponti Collection. Another highlight of their stand will
be a unique decorated 'glass vase', dating from about 1952, by Flavio Poli.
One of the three first copies of the famous chair made for Le
Corbusier’s Villa Church in Ville-de’Avray in France in 1928 will be exhibited
by Galerie Ulrich Fiedler from Berlin, while Sebastian & Barquet of New York
will show a Lucio Fontana table top with reverse-decorated glass dating from
1952. The walnut table was designed and manufactured by Osvaldo Borsani
($120,000). Yves Macaux of Brussels will bring a lamp designed by Joseph Hoffman
for the Vienna home of Magda Mautner von Markhof, who commissioned important
interior design projects in the early 20th century.
Dealers have been invited to take part in a new section
at TEFAF specialising in a wide range of works on paper. TEFAF on Paper
will occupy the upstairs hall where TEFAF successfully launched TEFAF Design at
the 2009 Fair. The space there will be increased from 600 to 900 square metres.
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