Sotheby’s To Offer Tuyomyo by Frank Gehry on June 12, 2009

Sotheby’s To Offer Tuyomyo by Frank Gehry on June 12, 2009

On June 12, 2009 Sotheby’s will offer a unique work by renowned architect Frank Gehry. Thebench, named Tuyomyo (yours and mine in Spanish), was created in collaboration with Emeco, the premiermanufacturer of contemporary aluminum furniture

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May 22, 2009 – On June 12, 2009 Sotheby’s will offer a unique work by renowned architect Frank Gehry. Thebench, named Tuyomyo (yours and mine in Spanish), was created in collaboration with Emeco, the premiermanufacturer of contemporary aluminum furniture. Gehry’s mandate was simple: “The form has to be free and light. Itmust be structural and at the same time poetic. And a little dangerous.” Standing three meters long but weighing only122 pounds, the Tuyomyo bench was crafted using 80% recycled aluminum components and aircraft manufacturingtechnology. Proceeds from the sale of the work, which is estimated at $250/350,000,* will benefit the HereditaryDisease Foundation research fund established in 2008 in honor of Gehry’s late daughter – The Leslie Gehry BrennerAward for Innovation in Science.

“In Tuyomyo, Frank Gehry has returned to the attenuated and undulating lines of his first furniture project, the EasyEdges Series of 1969-1973,” said James Zemaitis, Senior Vice President and Director of Sotheby’s 20th CenturyDesign Department. “The culmination of his five-year experiment in aluminum with Emeco, which includes the iconicmass-produced Superlight chair, Tuyomyo is one-of-a- kind. This bench for two will not be produced again. It is aremarkable opportunity for collectors.”

Tuyomyo was presented at the Emeco booth during the Salone del Mobile in Milan, April 22-27, 2009. This is thesecond time Emeco and Gehry have collaborated on a project, the first being the creation of the all-aluminumSuperlight chair launched at the Salone in 2004 and recently accepted into the Museum of Modern Art’s permanentdesign collection. Tuyomyo, a bench designed for two, began as a sketch during the first collaboration and developedinto this unique work which is being sold to raise funds and awareness for the Hereditary Disease Foundation. TheGehrys are founding trustees of the HDF, and are deeply passionate about and committed to the cure of brain diseases.