Garouste & Bonetti Concerto chairs sycamore bronze alpaca velvet 1990

Set of six Concerto chairs by Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti designed and produced in the early 1990s by BGH Edition. This model perfectly embodies the duo’s distinctive vocabulary, between baroque references and surrealist influences. The chairs feature ebonized wooden legs supporting sycamore gondola-shaped backs that gently extend the silhouette. The light-colored sycamore backs are adorned with a bronze medallion, a signature detail of the model. The seats have been newly reupholstered with an iridescent red alpaca by Dedar. A rare set in excellent condition, fully restored in our workshop.
Garouste & Bonetti duo were celebrated for inventing a new Baroque and barbarian romanticism. They became recognised as international players in the art and design market from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Their furniture is inventive, unconventional, subtle, constituted by heteroclite and unusual materials, in reference to the Middle Ages and Africa, revisiting the Venetian baroque and the neo-classicism. As they once stated about their work : ‘Our hope is to give people the feeling of freedom in the choice of forms. Good taste really bothers us a lot. What we care about is implanting doubt. We don’t have any rules.’