'Extrusion' bench
Designer
Thomas Heatherwick
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Heatherwick Studio
Origin
United Kingdom
Year
2012
Design Museum Section
British Design Icons
Design in Aluminum
Design-Art: Limited Editions | One-Offs
Categories
Benches
Designheroes ID
53736
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Materials
Aluminium
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
'Extrusion' bench
Extruded aluminum.
2012
Produced by Heatherwick Studio, UK.
29 1/8 x 52 3/4 x 22 in. (74 x 134 x 56 cm)
Extrusion 3 from billet 7. Underside incised with Thomas Heatherwick/BILLET7 – EXTRUSION 3/JUNE 2012.
Catalog essay
The present bench is the third extrusion by Thomas Heatherwick from a single billet of aluminum. Forced through a large die, the aluminum was cut into unique, unrepeatable sections and hand-polished. Waste from “Billet 7” was recycled for future extrusions. Heatherwick conceived his “Extrusion” benches over a twelve-year period dating from his coursework at the Royal College of Art, London. He had intended to create lengthy seating for public spaces such as airports and stations. The process of creating his “Extrusions” implies infinity. As Heatherwick states, he could conceivably produce a work that “reached around the planet to wherever it needed to go.”
Literature
Thomas Heatherwick: Extrusions, exh. cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2009, passim for similar examples from the series and the manufacturing process
Thomas Heartherwick and Maisie Rowe, Thomas Heartherwick: Making, London, 2012, pp. 504-513 for similar examples from the series and for the manufacturing process
Thomas Heartherwick and Maisie Rowe, Thomas Heartherwick: Making, London, 2012, pp. 504-513 for similar examples from the series and for the manufacturing process
Provenance
Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Object
'Extrusion' bench
Designer
Thomas Heatherwick
Manufacturer/Maker/Editor
Heatherwick Studio
Origin
United Kingdom
Year
2012
Design Museum Section
British Design Icons
Design in Aluminum
Design-Art: Limited Editions | One-Offs
Categories
Benches
Designheroes ID
53736
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Materials
Aluminium
Availability
sold
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
