As part of the "style AD" session, celebrating the partnership between the famous magazine and PIASA auction house on Wednesday, December 16, 2020, the design department presents a selection of works featuring today's designers, the furniture of design stars, strong and innovative objects.
The selected works range from the inter-war period to the ultra-contemporary period; they bear the signatures of great names in the history of decoration as well as today's cutting-edge talents.
With a view to forging links between various eras and generations of designers, this auction takes the decision to present designers according to common universes, modes of expression and trend movements, such as that of sophisticated naturalness.
Ado Chale (Born in 1928)
Ado Chale (real name Adolphe Pelsener) lives and works in Belgium and since the late 1960's, he has been creating rare table tops in epoxy resin inlaid with semi-precious stones. Fossilized sequoia wood, malachite, lapis lazuli or jade illuminate his artist's furniture.
Ado Chale (born 1928)
Goutte d’eau
Estimation : 30000 / 40000 €
Pia Manu (XX)
A Belgian artist associated with Flemish brutalism, Pia Manu worked in her studio in Ingelmunster from the 1950s to the 1980s. He created pieces with primitive forms, animated by a work of texture mixing bronze, slate, copper, resin and ceramics. These materials, sometimes punctuated with semi-precious stones, animate the surfaces of coffee tables, bas-reliefs, fireplaces and abstract sculptures.
Pia Manu (XX)
Table basse - Pièce unique
Estimation : 12000 / 18000 €
Mario Ceroli (Born 1938)
Sculptor, scenographer and furniture designer, Mario Ceroli first became interested in ceramics in the 1950s. During a trip to Assisi in 1957, he discovered Giotto's art which inspired his first silhouette sculptures in raw wood that defined his style; sculptures that sometimes became headboards or seat backs. Close to the Arte Povera, he uses at the beginning materials such as earth, brick or straw. From the 1990's, he also experimented with marble, glass and bronze. The artist lives and works in Rome.
Mario Ceroli (born 1938)
Rosa dei Venti
Estimation : 8000 / 12000 €
Noé Duchaufour Lawrance (Born in 1974)
Interior architect and designer, Noé DuchaufourLawrance favours natural and organic forms, fluid and structured, in a desire to arouse emotion. Revealed in 2002 for his decor of the Sketch restaurant in London, he moves with ease from the design of an object to the decoration of an interior. A prolific designer, he has signed furniture lines for Cinna, Tabisso and Zanotta. For a few years now, he has been evolving towards a less industrial, more artisanal, ecological and virtuous practice.
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance (born 1974)
Lengfeld I
Estimation : 6000 / 9000 €
Jérôme Pereira (Born in 1968)
Sculptor of luminaries, Jerome Pereira realizes all his pieces in his workshop in Marseille. They are the result of a creative process that goes from dreams to sketches to their manufacture through models. Mixing wood, branches, pulleys and blown glass globes, the creator shapes poetic compositions often in movement.
Jérôme Pereira (XX) Planck Longiligne - Unique piece
Estimation : 10000 / 15000 €
Danny Lane (Born in 1955)
Glass sculptor born in Urbana, Illinois, Danny Lane has been working in London since the 1980s. By exploiting the strength of glass under compression and combining the prowess of design and engineering, he produces sophisticated work despite its apparent simplicity. His pieces with irregular edges have a raw elegance. Along with Ron Arad and Tom Dixon, he is one of the leading figures in the London wilderness furniture of the 1980s.
Danny Lane (born 1955)
Shell
Estimation : 2500 / 3500 €
Guy Bareff (Born in 1942)
Sculptor-ceramist living in Provence, Guy Bareff reinterprets since a few years the stylistic vocabulary which had already made his fame in the 1970s. Working with clay from a very young age, he has handcrafted utilitarian objects - lamps, pieces of sofa or vases - from which emanates a soothed poetry, a graphic force imbued with naturalness.
