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Tobias Wong

Glass chair

2002
glass 31½ h × 16 w in (80 × 41 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $4,410
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provenance: Twentieth, Los Angeles | Private Collection
literature: 'The Mysteries of Tobias Wong,' Alex Williams, The New York Times, June 27, 2010, Section ST, Page 1

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In a field in which so many people want to be the next Philippe Starck, Donald Tobias Wong stood out as a designer who wanted to be the next Duchamp. Deeply influenced by subversive art movements like Dada and Fluxus, he graduated from the sculpture program at the Cooper Union, and went on to produce an acclaimed and influential body of work that questioned concepts like luxury and consumerism in a business that was about promoting them.

Alex Williams for The New York Times

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