How much!!!???

For those who are wondering how much the chair was sold for here is a video of it being sold. Click on the image to see more

The auction

We had the auction yesterday. It was amazing to watch our work being auctioned but also to watch Banksy's work being sold which in total went for a record sale of £545000. Anyways back to the chair. Here are some snap shots of what happened.

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GONE.

Guesses of how much the chair went for here. Please comment below.

BBC covers the Auction

The auction that the Chair is in, is mentioned on the BBC website at the moment.

Of course the fact that BANKSY is selling 10 of his pieces of work in the same auction is the focus of the article. Still it gets people to the auction. You never know BANKSY might put a bid on the chair. To seemore click here.

Auction Preview

Here are some of the photos of the preview auction at Bonhams. It was amazing to see the chair amongst some of the biggest names in art and design. From Ron Arad to Banksy and Damien Hirst, some amazing pieces of art and design were on display. Wednesdays the auction so fingers crossed it does well. Whilst we were there we met some really interesting people. We are debating whether the guy in glasses is a certain stencil artist. Do you know this man?

Knoll

Knoll who kindly donated the bertoia chair has featured the red nose chairhere.

The Chair That Grows at Paul Smith

So this is it. The count down to the auction is here and it starts at the Paul Smith shop in Covent Garden on Floral St. The Chair That Grows is in the window till the 19th October. If your around that way check it out.

Sale 14942 Lot 357 - Vision 21, 24 Oct 2007 Knightsbridge

The Chair that Grows is on the bonhams site. Click here to see more.

thechairthatgrows.co.uk

Here is the the chair that grows website
To see more click here.

The Chair that Grow's story continues

Just thought I'd put a post up regarding the progression of the Red Nose Chair my friend David Bruno and I designed and created for Comic Relief and Knoll furniture.

We managed to reupholster the Bertoia chair by asking people to donate a pound and for every pound that was donated a nose is added to the chair. As a result we reupholstered the whole chair thanks to work colleagues friends and the general public and raised £720.00 for Comic Relief which was an amazing result. Not only that we have approached Bonhams in Mayfair to auction the chair in there contemporary design and furniture auction in October to raise even more money for Comic Relief and they have said YES. A great result.

We have also been chatting to a famous knighted fashion designer who is wanting to back the project which is brilliant news but we are waiting to here from his marketing team with what this may involve. Keep you posted.

This project has been a success in many ways for both David and I. Not only has this been a great learning curve for both of us, we have managed to create a great piece of design, an event which will create press coverage for Comic Relief and Knoll Furniture and not to mention raise lots of money for Comic Relief. A success all round. I have a feeling this project will grow even more if we let it.

Its starting to grow

The chair that grows

I've been really busy the last couple of weeks working on various projects. I thought I would share this project that I have been working on with my friend David Bruno.

This is Justin who runs Knoll adding one of the donated noses.

We approched Knoll furniture to upholster one of their Bertoia lounge chairs in Comic Relief Red Noses. The idea is to get the public to donate a pound towards a nose that will help upholster the chair. Theres 576 holes to fill and it looks like its coming along really well. Once the chair is full of noses it will be auctioned and all proceeds will go to Comic Relief.