The fish is a perfect form." —Frank Gehry
Architect and designer Frank Gehry has long been inspired by fish. He has created buildings, statues and even jewelry for Tiffany's using the form of a fish as the basis for his designs.
above: a necklace and earrings for Tiffany & Co by Gehry
Gehry has always experimented with sculpture and furniture in addition to his architectural pursuits, coaxing inventive forms out of unexpected materials, from the Easy Edges (1969–73) and Experimental Edges (1979–82)—chairs and tables carved from blocks of industrial corrugated cardboard—to the Knoll furniture series (1989–92), fashioned from bentwood. The Fish Lamps evolved from a 1983 commission by the Formica Corporation to create objects from the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore.