Furniture Pimp: Unique pieces from the collection of Jim Walrod, connoisseur and floating free radical
//Catalogue cover featuring detail of Tête Cultivée, Nicola L, 1970//
As befits a sorely-missed man of singular style and taste, the catalogue for the forthcoming sale Furniture Pimp: The Collection Of Jim Walrod is an absolute treat.
//Right: Walrod at home photographed by Collin Hughes; Left: works featured in the forthcoming sale//
//Quote, Toland Grinnell; Detail, La Femme Commode, Nicola L, 1969/1993//
//Iggy On The Cross, Stephen Sprouse, 1987//
The sale of works from the personal collection of the New York-based art, architecture, design, interiors and pop culture connoisseur Walrod – who died unexpectedly last September – will be staged by US auction house Wright on May 3 as “a celebration of a man who collected everything and knew just as much”.
//Clockwise from left: Brooks leather jacket belonging to Budgie, drummer for Siouxsie & The Banshees; Untitled, Artist Unknown, 2000; I Ricchi Poveri Toto lamp, Ingo Maurer, 2014; Lighter and two vessels, Italian, 1955//
//Clockwise from top left: Untitled, Peter Gee, 1965: Passiflora table lamp, SuperStudio, 1966; Bacterio card case, Ettore Sottsass, c2000//
Clockwise from left: Chippendale chair + Queen Anne chair, Robert Venturi with Denise Scott Brown, 1985; Shiva Vase, Ettore Sottsass, 1985; Set of four plates, Allessandro Mendini, 2016//
//Top: Set of four canisters, Fiorucci, 1980; Above: Hammer House, Shimo Kuramata, 1985//
Selected works from Walrod’s collection will be on view at Wright’s showrooms in Chicago and New York starting April 25. For details and to view the Furniture Pimp catalogue online visit here.
Read my Creative Review obituary for Walrod here.