On May 4, KUNST & DESIGN AUKTIONSHAUS SCHOPS TUROWSKI will be hosting their upcoming sale with nearly 540 lots of unique art, furniture, ceramics, silver and more. Major names like Lucie Rie, Jean Prouvé, Christo, Pablo Picasso, and more will be featured with rare works. Don't miss this exceptional sale brimming with one-of-a-kind treasures.
Here is a very rare silver plate by Henry van de Velde circa 1902/1903. It has a whiplash decoration in relief, which resembles the whiplash motif of a Meissen porcelain service created at the same time. It was designed as part of the silver gift for the wedding of the Grand Duke of Weimar, and a copy of this plate was subsequently acquired by the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum.
Lucie Rie's signature technique was sgraffito, which comes from the Italian word meaning "to scratch" and consists of small incisions made in the glaze to create texture and pattern. On offer is one of Lucie Rie's sgraffito bowls that was made between 1968-1972 in porcelain. She used creamy white and brown glaze and decorated it with sgraffito inside and outside.
One of Lucie Rie's colleagues and closest friends was fellow sculptor Hans Coper, known for his abstract and sculptural vessels. He designed this large 'Spade' stoneware vase on offer. The surface is layered with light sand-colored and light gray nuances, while the lower area boasts isolated light and red-brown spots.
Here is Christo's Store Front (Mandarin Yellow) made in pencil, crayon and enamel on drawing parchment, mounted in collage on cardboard. Christo's architectural style is depicted in this drawing, which he often made as sketch studies for his installations.
Jean Prouvé designed this rare stool around 1954 with a rotatable and height-adjustable construction in painted metal and plywood. This object was part of a pair from a private collection, and the counterpart was auctioned at Phillips in London in 2022. These are the only two copies known, and the drawing for this design is preserved in the Archives Jean Prouvé.
Another unique seating object is this Danilo Silverstrin ball chair, designed in 1968. It consists of two acrylic hemispheres, which can be closed into a ball using a hinge with silver vinyl covers. This object is one of very few surviving examples of this piece of seating furniture, which was discovered after about 25 years in storage and was preserved for posterity through extensive restoration. Considered an icon of space design of the 1960s, Silverstrin made this for his friend, the Düsseldorf photographer Lothar Wolleh. He furnished Wolleh's apartment, which also functioned as a gallery for the works of his artist friends, with a variety of futuristic, transparent furniture.
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