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Warren Platner

Lounge chairs from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth, pair

Knoll Associates
USA, 1966
chrome-plated steel, upholstery 39 h × 41½ w × 35 d in (99 × 105 × 89 cm)
estimate: $6,000–8,000
result: $7,560
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Molded manufacturer's mark to each seat ‘Elasta-Seat a product of the Acushnet Process Co. New Bedford, Mass’.
provenance: Private Collection, Los Angeles
literature: Knoll Design, Larrabee and Vignelli, ppg. 160-161 Knoll: A Modernist Universe, Lutz, ppg. 74-75, 166-167

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The Elegant Eye

A Los Angeles Interior by Oliver Furth

Dubbed “a true son of Los Angeles” by Architectural Digest, interior designer Oliver Furth opened his eponymous studio in 2004 and has become a celebrated fixture of the design community in Los Angeles and far beyond. Equipped with a background in architecture and the decorative arts, Furth has orchestrated spaces for artists, families, and Hollywood heavyweights alike, applying a signature blend of “freewheeling creativity and scholarly historicism” in his approach. In addition to operating his studio, Furth acts as a consultant to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and was inducted into Architectural Digest's AD100 in 2022. 

Works from a Los Angeles Interior by Oliver Furth

297 Finn Juhl

Lounge chair, model NV-5 from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $5,670

291 Finn Juhl

Lounge chairs from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth, pair

estimate: $6,000–9,000

result: $11,340

145 Donald Judd

Copper armchair

estimate: $7,000–9,000

result: $15,720

233 Paul Evans

Argente table, model PE 37 from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $4,000–6,000

result: $5,040

335 Toni Zuccheri

Biennale vase from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $800–1,200

result: $882

333 Kurt Versen

Flip Top floor lamp from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $800–1,200

result: $1,310

259 Jens Risom

Wastepaper baskets from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth, set of two

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $2,016

250 Charles and Ray Eames

DTW-1 from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $3,000–5,000

result: $4,128

294 Ingeborg Lundin

Ariel vase from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $700–900

result: $1,290

169 Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti

Collection of four table articles from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $700–900

result: $2,142

254 Warren Platner

Lounge chairs from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth, pair

estimate: $6,000–8,000

result: $7,560

331 C. Jeré

Infinity mirror from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $700–900

result: $2,268

336 Erno Fabry

Occasional tables from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth, pair

estimate: $1,000–1,500

result: $1,386

118 Apparatus

Arrow pendant from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $5,000–7,000

266 Paul McCobb

Occasional table, model 8732 from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $800–1,200

283 Finn Juhl

Armchair, model NV-48 from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $3,780

282 Berndt Friberg

Collection of seven vases from a Los Angeles interior by Oliver Furth

estimate: $1,200–1,800

result: $1,638

A classic design is something that every time you look at it, you accept it as it is and you see no way of improving it.

Warren Platner

Warren Platner 1919–2006

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Warren Platner (1919—2006) was an American architect and interior designer whose seminal furniture collection produced by Knoll International remains an icon of 1960s modernism today. In 1941, Platner graduated with a degree in architecture from Cornell and soon went to work for the renowned Raymond Loewy and I.M. Pei between 1945—1950 later earning the Rome Prize in architecture in 1955.

While working in the office of Eero Saarinen during the mid-1960s, he released a collection of chairs, ottomans, and tables that has been in continuous production by Knoll ever since. The collection is both elegant and understated consisting of steel wire furniture that rests on a sculptural base of nickel-plated steel rods. The following year he opened his firm Warren Platner Associates later designing the highly regarded interiors of the Ford Foundation headquarters in 1967, Georg Jensen Design Center in 1968, and the glamorous Windows on the World restaurant of the World Trade Center, New York in 1976.

Auction Results Warren Platner

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executive desk

estimate: $7,000–9,000

result: $36,250

Warren Platner

Dining set

estimate: $7,000–9,000

result: $31,200

Warren Platner

dining table, model #3716T and six dining chairs, model #1725A

estimate: $7,000–9,000

result: $22,800

Warren Platner

Executive desk

estimate: $10,000–15,000

result: $21,250

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