Incollect Magazine - Issue 9

“ 82 www.incollect.com Karl art of Maximalist and the Minimalism The pieces that attract me have detailing that you can contemplate for hours,” Karl Springer told Architectural Digest , speaking about his personal taste for a profile story published in 1989, two years before his death at age 60, of an AIDS-related illness. The designer went on to explain that because he sought the same standard of quality for everything he produced under his name, there was no possibility of mass production. Everything from his workshop was handmade, stating, “We make one piece at a time.” Springer by Benjamin Genocchio JMF Side Table in lacquered goatskin, 1970s, from Karl Springer’s Jean-Michel Frank series, which pays tribute to the great French interior designer of the 1920s and 30s. Courtesy of Lobel Modern.