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Pedro Friedeberg - Architectural Digest

Pedro Friedeberg - Architectural Digest

June 5, 2024

House of Pedro Friedeberg

An obligatory reference for international art, Pedro Friedeberg is the most published and constant artist that Mexican art has produced.

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Friedeberg is the creator of the famous hand-shaped chair that caused a sensation, and became the cover of magazines such as Life, House and Garden, Vogue and Tropic.
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He not only made hand chairs, but also foot chairs that have sold successfully, as well as clocks framed by hands, stars and moons that he called Tichenor Time, due to his devotion to the painter Bridget Tichenor.
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Pedro Friedeberg is interested in eccentric characters, he loves people who break out of the established pattern.
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“Antonio Souza was a phenomenon, Chucho Reyes, Fito Best Maugard, Miguel Covarrubias, and María Félix was also a quite unpleasant phenomenon because she was a bad actress, intense and imposing, but she was beautiful and would talk until three, four, five in the morning.

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Pedro bought this house in one of the most dynamic and characterful neighborhoods in Mexico City, the Roma neighborhood. Two years later he acquired the adjacent house and joined them; he respected its architecture and gave it his unique touch.
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Throughout the home there are works of art by friends and artists he admires, such as Bridget Tichenor or Leonora Carrington.

Source: https://www.admagazine.com/arquitectura/casa-de-pedro-friedeberg-20150601-475-galerias