Other furnishings include wing chairs in illuminated plastic by Kazuhiro Yamanaka and an acrylic shelving system by Alexander Taylor but there will also be eye-catching glasswares, metalwares, ceramics, masses of jewellery and plenty of head-turning lighting on show and for sale.
Unusual juxtapositions of material and function can always be found at this exhibition. As well as Koziara’s chairs, there are Delo Lindo’s bowls assembled from hundreds of pieces of plastic tubing that are cut and reassembled with glue, as shown right, and Pierre Pozzi’s hangings, bowls and other vessels made from shredded paper.
At the same time Sotheby’s will also be premiering LOSA, an exhibition celebrating the collaboration of six well known European designers with South African craftworkers to produce pieces that make use of particular South African skills such as beadwork, coiled grass basketry, telephone wirework, wood carving and embroidery.
Fantasies of form and function
Pictured right is one of Twelve Angels, 9ft 10in (3m) high towering chairs made of dried branches that look like sinuous dancers. They are the work of Polish designer Dorota Koziara and three of these are among the more striking furniture forms to be found in CDA 2002, the 6th annual exhibition of Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design that opens at Sotheby’s Bond Street Galleries on February 20 and runs until March 1.
