Gehry Special

Newsweek, December, 2005 by Cathleen McGuigan

In the early 1970s, long before the Guggenheim Bilbao and Disney Concert Hall made Frank Gehry the world's most famous living architect, he was considered a renegade. A cutting-edge Californian who loved to use everyday materials like plywood and chain link, he designed a series of witty, surprisingly comfortable chairs, made of corrugated cardboard, called Easy Edges; you could buy your very own Frank Gehry chair at Bloomingdale's for about $35. But that was then, and now is now.

This month, Vitra, the innovative Swiss furniture company, is reintroducing the Easy Edges line--this time splashed with color on the edges--as well as a series of spectacular lighting fixtures called Cloud. If you want to perch on one of Gehry's chairs today, it'll set you back at least $850. The...

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