architecture, design & graphics

“Bubbles” chaise longue, Frank O. Gehry

The major American expressionist designer of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Frank Gehry is best known as the architect of the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Here, Gehry has taken a much humbler material—corrugated cardboard—and folded it into improbable S-curves like a giant ribbon.

Part of an experimental series of cardboard furniture made from 1979 to 1982, the “Bubbles” chaise was never intended for the mass market but was instead handmade and sold through galleries as expensive, limited-edition art furniture.

Modern & Contemporary Art