Pedro Friedeberg

Regular readers of "Vogue," visitors to The Museum of Modern Art, New York and design collectors who frequent auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's will be delighted to know that there is, at long last, a proper monograph on the iconic German-born, Mexico City-based Pop-Surrealist artist and industrial designer Pedro Friedeberg. This comprehensive, 450-page first monograph brings together more than 500 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and design objects- including Friedeberg's famous hand chair, which has been in production since 1962 and appears regularly in international style and fashion magazines to this day. (According to "The New York Times'" style magazine, "T," the hand chair has been "an object of desire for boldface design-world names from Arnold Scaasi to Kelly Wearstler. The Surrealist writer and poet Andre Breton was also mesmerized by the chair, as were Yul Brynner, Roman Polanski and Jeanne Moreau.") Published on the occasion of the artist's first major career retrospective, on view from late 2009 through early 2010 at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, this volume contains essays by the noted art historians James Oles of Wellesley College and Jeffrey Collins of Bard Graduate Center, among others.