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Wooden Throne

Wooden Throne

© 1979 Riccardo Dalisi

Wooden Throne
Wooden Throne
DesignerItalian, 1931–2022
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Wooden Throne
Date1979
MediumWood and paint
DimensionsOverall: 54 7/8 × 22 × 25 1/4 in. (139.4 × 55.9 × 64.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Dennis Freedman Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2019.199
Not on view

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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Christie's, London, October 10, 2001, lot 81]; purchased by Dennis Freedman, New York, 2001; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History"Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985, the Dennis Freedman Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 14–November 29, 2020; Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, February 21–July 8, 2022.

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