Lot 650
RALPH BALL FOR STUDIO BALL
'TENSION' WALL SHELVES, 1990S
Auction: 1 April 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
glass, steel and steel wire
Dimensions
420cm wide, 250cm high, 29cm deep
Footnote
Please note this lot will not be assembled for view due to its size.
Note: Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1980 Ralph Ball has produced both one-off commissions and mass-manufactured products.
In the early 1980s, at Foster and Partners, Architects, London, Ball designed signature furniture for the Renault Building (Swindon UK) and for HSBC’s corporate headquarters in Hong Kong. The ‘Renault Furniture’ established the benchmark for the Foster ‘Nomos’ office system.
In 1988 he was appointed Professor and Chair of Industrial Design at the University of Washington USA, returning to the UK in 1993 to take up academic roles at the Royal College of Art and subsequently at Central Saint Martins.