The Collection of Sylvia & Garry Knox Bennett 
27 March 2025
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 1 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 2 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 3 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 4 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 5 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 6 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 7 of 7
The Collection of Sylvia & Garry Knox Bennett 
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 1 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 2 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 3 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 4 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 5 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 6 of 7
Gord Peteran, 100 - Image 7 of 7
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Gord Peteran

100

Canada, 1996
ebony, bronze, ebonized oak, suede table: 24 h × 25 w × 27 d in (61 × 63 × 69 cm) case: 3½ h × 28¾ w × 17½ d in (9 × 73 × 44 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,302
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The work 100 is comprised of two tables and one case. The two tables are identical with interchangable parts. This design was titled for being the 100th object Peteran managed to sell.
Impressed signature, title and number to seat underside of each example ‘100 G. Peteran 01' and '02’. Sold with digital copy of exhibition brochure from the Cranbrook Art Museum.
provenance: Collection of Sylvia and Garry Knox Bennett
exhibited: Contemporary North American Furniture- A Survey of the Furniture Makers Art, 1997, Neuberger Museum of Art, Neuberger, NY | Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker, 5 October 2006 - 14 January 2007, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (traveling exhibition)
literature: Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets its Maker, Adamson, ppg. 86-88 illusrates this work

This item is subject to CITES regulations. Rago Wright LLC. cannot provide the required documentation needed for export out of the United States; therefore, this item is only eligible for domestic shipping.
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Larger Than Life: Garry Knox Bennett

by Glenn Adamson

Garry Knox Bennett was a big man. Big in every way. Tall. Fulsomely bearded. Physically powerful. A veritable Paul Bunyan of furniture, with expansive creativity and curiosity to match. Whatever world he stepped into didn’t quite measure up to him; and so, in the nicest possible way, he had to make it that much more capacious.

Whatever world [Garry] stepped into didn’t quite measure up to him; and so, in the nicest possible way, he had to make it that much more capacious.

That pattern set in early, when, as he put it, “the flower people came to Frisco.” (He was a man of Oakland, with a lifelong suspicion of the fancier sister city across the bay.) Having already gone to art school, initially as a painter and focusing increasingly on sculpture, he now discovered himself as an entrepreneur, starting up a business called Squirkenworks and selling handmade drug paraphernalia at a rapid clip. “God bless the hippies,” he used to say fondly. "They loved anything ugly.” 

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