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Price includes deckchair frame and sling.

About the Artist

Peter Saville is a designer of unique infl uence on visual culture. For over twenty-fi ve years he has produced essential innovations in the field of communications, significantly affecting the interplay between art, design and advertising. Born in Manchester in 1955, he studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic from 1975-1978. In 1979, he became a founding partner of the landmark independent record label Factory Records where he created some of the most recognisable album covers of all time for Joy Division and New Order.

Saville’s many clients have included Roxy Music, Ultravox, Peter Gabriel, Pulp and Suede, the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Pompidou Centre, Yohji Yamamoto, Jil Sander, Christian Dior, Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Mandarina Duck and Adidas. Saville has exhibited internationally, with a major retrospective staged at London’s Design Museum in 2003 and subsequently in Tokyo and Manchester.

His work is shown at Paul Stolper and Hotel in London and Galerie Neu in Berlin. His first major show in a contemporary art museum was ESTATE at the Migros Museum, Zurich in 2005.