Franco Mello and Guido Drocco Set of three “Giant Cactus” coat stands circa 1972 Painted injection-molded foam, steel. Tallest: 66 1/2 in. (168.9 cm) Manufactured by Gufram, Italy and retailed by Stendig Inc., USA. Each from the edition of 2000. Underside of each stamped GUFRAM MULTIPLI '86 / PUFFO, respectively numbered 245 / 2000, 251 / 2000 and 253 / 2000.
Provenance Stendig Inc., New York Literature Giuliana Gramigna Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 370 Albrecht Bangert Italian Furniture Design: Ideas Styles Movements, Munich, 1988, p. 100 David A. Hanks, Anne Hoy and Martin Eidelberg, Design for Living: Furniture and Lighting 1950-2000, The Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, 2000, p. 116
Franco Mello and Guido Drocco Set of three “Giant Cactus” coat stands circa 1972 Painted injection-molded foam, steel. Tallest: 66 1/2 in. (168.9 cm) Manufactured by Gufram, Italy and retailed by Stendig Inc., USA. Each from the edition of 2000. Underside of each stamped GUFRAM MULTIPLI '86 / PUFFO, respectively numbered 245 / 2000, 251 / 2000 and 253 / 2000.
Provenance Stendig Inc., New York Literature Giuliana Gramigna Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 370 Albrecht Bangert Italian Furniture Design: Ideas Styles Movements, Munich, 1988, p. 100 David A. Hanks, Anne Hoy and Martin Eidelberg, Design for Living: Furniture and Lighting 1950-2000, The Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, 2000, p. 116
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