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  Antonio Pineda Important “Triangle and Diamond” pitcher, sterling, signed, Exhibited: Triennale di Milano, Italy, 1960

  ANTONIO PIÑEDA (1919-2009) Taxco, Mexico

  Exhibition Pitcher c.1959-60

  Handwrought sterling silver in an overall triangular form with a diamond opening and a double splayed form and contoured handle, 30 troy ounces total weight

  Marks: Antonio Taxco (large crown mark) Sterling Silver, 930, Mexican Eagle silver standard mark

  Exhibited at the Triennale di Milano, Italy, 1960

  Provenance: Antonio Pineda, 1990

  Illustrated: Triennale di Milano, Argentería di Antonio Pineda,
  Exhibition Catalogue (Milan, 1960).

  H: 6 5/8” x L: 9 ½” x D: 5 ¾”

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  Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Tri-footed pewter vase with blue enamel c. 1902-05

  ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933)   UK

  LIBERTY & CO. London

  Tri-footed vase   c.1902-05

  Pewter with blue enamel

  Marks: Liberty & Co., ENGLISH PEWTER, 0927

  Model illustrated: Liberty’s 1875-1975, An Exhibition to mark the Firm’s Centenary (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1975) p. 76; The Liberty Style, introduction by Victor Arwas (NY: Rizzoli, 1979) cat. no. 36

  H: 11 3/4”

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  Nigel Coates, Rare, Early and Iconic Genie stool 1988

  NIGEL COATES  (b. 1949)  England
  BRANSON COATES ARCHITECTURE  London

  “Genie” stool  1988

  Carved and sandblasted solid ash seat on twisted mild steel legs

  Marks: NIGEL COATES  GENIE STOOL
  Illustrated: 1000 chairs, Charlotte & Peter Fiell (Cologne: Taschen Verlag, 1997), p. 615.

  H: 26: x D: 13 1/2″

  Price: $9,500

   

  British architect and designer. He studied at Nottingham University and the Architectural Association, London, where he graduated in 1974 and subsequently taught until 1989. In 1983 he formed the group NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) with a group of former students and began to practice independently; two years later he went into partnership with Doug Branson (b 1951). Coates became known for his fluid and lively graphic style and the overt theatricality of his designs. His proposals for the redevelopment of London, involving sophisticated allegories of popular culture, were shown in two exhibitions: ArkAlbion (1984), with drawings of new development areas such as County Hall and the Isle of Dogs, and Ecstacity (1992), with computer simulations and video clips. In the renovation (1980) of his own flat in London he juxtaposed the original, ornate late 19th-century interior with ‘found’ furniture and decorative objects. The publication of this project brought Coates to the attention of Japanese clients who were seeking fashionable Western designers, and he carried out several projects in Japan that became increasingly theatrical: in Tokyo the Metropole Restaurant (1985) evokes a European café, while the Parco Café Bongo (1986) juxtaposes classical English furniture with an imitation aeroplane wing mounted on the ceiling; and the Arca di Noè (1988), Sapporo, is an eclectic mixture of classical motifs and a concrete boat. Coates’s radical approach was dissipated in later British works, such as a series of London shops: one for Katharine Hamnett in Sloane Street (1988) has a shop front formed of aquaria, and one for Jigsaw in Knightsbridge (1992) has its shop front formed of a two-storey copper column in the shape of a phallus. In 1992 he began designing an extension to the Geffrye Museum, London.
  Coates was an influential teacher at the Architectural Association from 78- 86, and has lectured extensively abroad. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Architectural Design at the Royal College of Art and now divides his time equally between the college and his office. Nigel Coates furniture is represented in the Modern Furniture Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

  “I go for architecture that overlays and enhances. By blending observation and wit with reason, I want my work to generate a sense of the unexpected, and the seemingly spontaneous.”

   

   

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  Christopher Dresser / Heath & Middleton Petite claret jug 1887

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  HEATH & MIDDLETON   Birmingham, England

  Petite claret jug   1887

  Sterling silver mounts with hinged covers to both top and spout, glass, ebony handle

  Marks: JTH & JHM in a four-lobed cartouche, London assay marks for 1887 (“M” in a shield), Vienna import mark (conjoined AV in a 6-sided cartouche)

  Illustrated: Industrial Design Unikate Serienerzeugnisse, Die Neue Sammlung ein neuer Museumstyp des 20. Jahrhunderts, Hans Wichmann (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1985), p. 131; Christopher Dresser, ein Viktorianischer Designer, 1834-1904 (Cologne: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, 1981), p. 73, ill. 86, cat. no. 23; Industrial Design, John Heskett (New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 24, illus. 9; Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, Michael Collins (London: Camden Arts Centre, 1979), p. 171, cat.no.12.

  H: 6” x Dia: 4”