Lot 17TP
Robyn Denny(British, 1930-2014)Multicolour Rectangles Table 114cm (44 7/8in) long, 87cm (34 1/4in) wide, 36cm (14 3/16in) high
Amended
3 March 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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Robyn Denny (British, 1930-2014)
Multicolour Rectangles Table
laminate table top designed by Robyn Denny and made by DANAD Design circa 1960, with later wooden frame, twice stamped with DANAD design symbol (to wooden frame)
114cm (44 7/8in) long, 87cm (34 1/4in) wide, 36cm (14 3/16in) high
Unique
laminate table top designed by Robyn Denny and made by DANAD Design circa 1960, with later wooden frame, twice stamped with DANAD design symbol (to wooden frame)
114cm (44 7/8in) long, 87cm (34 1/4in) wide, 36cm (14 3/16in) high
Unique
Footnotes
Provenance
The DANAD Design Archive
In 1962, the design for this table by Daniels was used for a large mural in the Co-Operative Insurance Society Headquarters in Manchester.
DANAD Design (1958-1962) was set up in 1958 by a loose collective of six artists who lived in a dilapidated Georgian country house in Hertfordshire called Marden Hill. The collective's name derived, eponymously, from Barry Daniels and Tom Adams. Together with Peter Blake, Robyn Denny, Bernard Cohen and Edward Wright, as well as the architects Colin Huntley and Peter Adams, the artists worked collaboratively to cross the boundaries between art and design. Heralded as artistic pioneers, their use of everyday objects as their new platform to exhibit their art, is considered widely by many art historians to be one of the defining features of Pop Art. By featuring designs by artists on tables intended for everyday use they strove to bring art into the everyday, just as Pop Art deemed that almost anything from everyday life - such as cuttings from newspapers, collage and commercial advertising techniques - could become art.
Saleroom notices
Please note that further research has revealed we cannot confirm which DANAD artist designed this table, and the cataloguing should instead read as by DANAD Design and not as stated in the cataloguing. Artists Resale Rights do not apply to this lot. Please also note that the footnote should read: 'In 1962, the design for this table was used for a large mural in the Co-Operative Insurance Society Headquarters in Manchester', and not as stated in the cataloguing.
