Garouste & Bonetti

Concerto Chairs, sycamore, bronze and alpaca velvet

1990

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The label
Designer
Garouste & Bonetti
Period
1990
Materials
Bronze, Wood, Velvet & Fabric
Dimensions
W 51 × D 46 × H 89 cm, seat 55 cm
Reference
VST-11595645256021
The story

Set of six Concerto chairs by Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti designed and produced in the early 1990s by BGH Edition. This model perfectly embodies the duo’s distinctive vocabulary, between baroque references and surrealist influences. The chairs feature ebonized wooden legs supporting sycamore gondola-shaped backs that gently extend the silhouette. The light-colored sycamore backs are adorned with a bronze medallion, a signature detail of the model. The seats have been newly reupholstered with an iridescent red alpaca by Dedar. A rare set in excellent condition, fully restored.

Garouste & Bonetti duo were celebrated for inventing a new Baroque and barbarian romanticism. They became recognised as international players in the art and design market from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Their furniture is inventive, unconventional, subtle, constituted by heteroclite and unusual materials, in reference to the Middle Ages and Africa, revisiting the Venetian baroque and the neo-classicism. As they once stated about their work : ‘Our hope is to give people the feeling of freedom in the choice of forms. Good taste really bothers us a lot. What we care about is implanting doubt. We don’t have any rules.’

About Garouste & Bonetti

Elizabeth Garouste (born 1949) and Mattia Bonetti (born 1952) worked together in Paris from 1980-2002. Their Barbarian furniture of 1981 challenged modernist orthodoxy with rough materials and archaic forms, and in 1987 they designed the couture house of Christian Lacroix. Their pieces, shown at Galerie Néotu and later David Gill, mix bronze, wrought iron, wood, rope and colour. Collectors seek numbered editions and early one-off works.

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