Fish Lamps by Frank Gehry - Dezeen
WEBJan 17, 2013 · Frank Gehry first produced his Fish Lamps between 1984 and 1986 using the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore. After accidentally shattering a piece of ColorCore while working on a commission...
Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps | Gagosian Quarterly
WEBJun 2, 2021 · Like their predecessors, the new fish glow, their ColorCore Formica scales still blending translucency with opacity, and they possess a sumptuousness that surely compensates for the loss of the raw, tentative energy of the first generation of fish lamps. Like Gehry’s architecture, the fish lamps have matured, and with them he has built on ...
Fish Lamp - Philadelphia Museum of Art
WEBGehry broke the ColorCore into irregular fragments, which he used for the scales of a series of sculptural fish lamps. Object Details. Titles: Fish Lamp. Date: c. 1983. Artists: Designed by Frank O. Gehry (American (born Canada), 1929) Made by New City Editions, Venice, California. Medium:
FRANK GEHRY (B. 1929) , AN EARLY 'FISH' LAMP, 1984 | Christie's
WEBFrank Gehry created his first legendary Fish Lamp for the exhibition, "Surface & Ornament," organized by the Formica Corporation to promote their new product ColorCore and exhibited at Neocon, the design trade exposition at …
Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps, Rome, July 18–September 16, 2016
WEBThe Fish Lamps evolved from a 1983 commission by the Formica Corporation to create objects from the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore. After accidentally shattering a piece of the material while working, Gehry was inspired by the shards, which reminded him of …
WEBThe first Fish Lamps, which were shown in “Frank Gehry: Unique Lamps” in 1984 at Gagosian Los Angeles, employed wire armatures molded into fish shapes, onto which shards of ColorCore are individually glued, creating clear …
Frank O. Gehry, Fish Lamp, 1983/2003 · SFMOMA
WEBHaving already decided to highlight ColorCore’s integral coloring and translucence, Gehry accidentally broke a piece and discovered that it fragmented into rough, scalelike pieces of varying opacity and shading.
Frank O. Gehry (b. 1929) , A UNIQUE COLORCORE, WOOD, WIRE, …
WEBfrank o. gehry (b. 1929) a unique colorcore, wood, wire, silicon, electrical lighting system and glass 'fish' lamp no. 1 with bustle base, designed 1983
Frank Gehry’s Fish Lamps - The New York Times Web Archive
WEBAug 27, 2010 · Frank Gehry designed the first of his famous fish lamps in 1983, when he was asked by the Formica Corporation for ways to use the company’s new laminate product, ColorCore, which was...
Fish Lamps by Frank Gehry | Inspiration Grid
WEBOct 30, 2013 · Iconic Canadian-American architect and artist Frank Gehry created a gorgeous sculptural series of fish lamps using jagged scales of ColorCore formica mounted on wireframes.
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