Contemporary Design 
23 May 2024
Contemporary Design 
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Tord Boontje

Garland chandelier

United Kingdom, 2002
laser-cut aluminum 19 h × 6 dia in (48 × 15 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $1,890
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provenance: Moss, New York | Private Collection, New York
literature: Tord Boontje: Enchanted World, Boontje, pg. 56

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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I liked the idea of creating these flowers that encircle a light bulb. At the time when I designed this piece, I was looking for a way to link decoration and technology in order to create something that was not nostalgic.

I had seen examples of photographically etching metal some years before, these were computer components. I realized that this would be a suitable process and material for my idea.

Because of the very high precision of the process it was possible to create something that would be impossible to make by hand and therefore could not have existed in the past.

—Tord Boontje, on creating the Garland chandelier

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