Charles Jencks (American 1939-2019) for Aram Designs Limited Light Table, 1985

Charles Jencks (American 1939-2019) for Aram Designs Limited 'Light Table', 1985 signed, dated and titled (to the base), unique, parchment paper and painted wood (50cm high, 43cm wide (19.75in high, 17in wide)) Footnote: Charles Jencks was an American landscape designer, architectural historian and cultural theorist, who published over thirty books and was famous as a theorist of Postmodernism in the 1980s. The current works were displayed in an exhibition of Symbolic Furniture by Charles Jencks at London’s Aram Designs in 1985, and clearly bears his Anglo-American signature style and the experimental and transitional nature of Post Modern architecture of its times. Jencks’ intention with symbolic furniture was to create works that were still somewhat general, but also capable of specific meaning and function, that might reassert its rightful place and give anonymous space a place and location. It was the completion of his London house that provided the major opportunity to design the furniture to fit with the programmatic system of the house, and the decoration of the house was basically about the Cosmos with rooms decorated to suggest five seasons (including the Indian Summer) around the Sun Stair and the Moonwell.