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Wolfgang Laubersheimer
s Amazonas Desk for the Pentagon Group, 1988
$18,395.08
£13,721.53
€15,500
CA$25,603.19
A$27,467.64
CHF 14,733.08
MX$330,706.73
NOK 185,727.75
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DKK 118,121.79
About the Item
Amazonas Desk (1988) by Wolfgang Laubersheimer for Pentagon. A Brutalist masterpiece featuring a flowing water channel—sculpture, furniture, and installation art all in one.
Brutalism at its best, wonderfully unique and almost utopian in its fantasy: the Amazonas Desk , designed in 1988 by Wolfgang Laubersheimer for the Cologne collective Pentagon .
The desk features a robust, industrial steel base, topped with a natural stone top meticulously carved with the path of the Amazon River . The result is an intriguing dialogue between geometric rigor and organic form.
What makes this piece exceptional is that the river is not merely decorative: Laubersheimer equipped the table with an ingenious water circulation system , allowing the channel to actually be filled with flowing water. This piece of furniture thus becomes a hybrid between desk, landscape, and installation art – a unique work that decisively blurs the lines between functionality and poetry.
The Amazonas Desk has been included in major exhibitions, including German Avant Garde: Design in the 1980s (Demisch Danant, New York, 2008), and is today considered a key object within the international design avant-garde.
A masterpiece that not only makes a statement but also opens a dialogue between nature, technology, and brutalist architecture . The desk is in exceptionally good condition – a unique opportunity for collectors of museum-quality avant-garde pieces.
- Creator:Wolfgang Laubersheimer (Designer),Pentagon Group (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)Width: 55.12 in (140 cm)Depth: 29.53 in (75 cm)
- Style:Brutalist (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1980-1989
- Date of Manufacture:1988
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Completely original condition.
- Seller Location:Zwevegem, BE
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU10591247297272
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