Artist/Designer: Frank O. Gehry

Title: Little Beaver

Medium: Wood, cardboard.

Dimensions: Chair 13.25"h x 15.5" x 13"

Footstool 6"h x 6.5" x 8.25"

Wood Crate 13.5" x 16.5" x 13"

Details: Chair designed in 1980.  Full size version produced by Vitra from 1987-1999.  This version is from a Limited Edition series (1:3 scale) produced in 1996 by the Vitra Design Museum.  Series includes 4 works (Little Beaver, Big Easy by Ron Arad, Poltrona di Proust and Lassu by Alessandro Mendini).  Vitra also currently produces a miniature of Little Beaver in a smaller 1:6 scale. Tag with signature on the bottom of the chair. In excellent condition.

Edition Size: Edition originally planned for 2000 but less than 250 were ever made.

Notes from the archive: The story goes that one day, architect Frank Gehry noticed a pile of cardboard outside his office, a material he preferred for his architectural models, and he began to glue laminated pieces together and then carve them with a hand saw and pocket knife to create small cardboard sculptures.  In 1972, he introduced a series of cardboard furniture under the name, "Easy Edges".  Vitra produced a number of Gehry's designs from this series and a few are still in production today. This design included in the limited edition series in 1:3 scale is definitely one of the favorite designs from this series and obviously, the chair looks as if the stacked cardboard has been chewed by a little beaver, hence it's name. 

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Related Products: Big Easy by Ron Arad, Lassu' by Alessandro Mendini in Bronze, Frank O. Gehry, Vitra Design Museum