Live Auction 10650Christie's Interiors
A POLISHED ALUMINIUM FIGHTER PLANE WING DESK
Lot 526

A POLISHED ALUMINIUM FIGHTER PLANE WING DESK

LATE 20TH CENTURY

Closed30 June 2015

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GBP 4,750

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A POLISHED ALUMINIUM FIGHTER PLANE WING DESK
LATE 20TH CENTURY
Later adapted with Perspex uprights and lights to the tips of the wings
35 ½ in. (90 cm.) high; 92 ½ in. (235 cm.) wide; 39.5 in. (100 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This desk featured in the Ridley Scott film, The Counsellor, 2013

This plane desk was made out of part of a wing from a PZL TS-11 Iskra (or SPARK), which is a Polish jet trainer aircraft successfully developed during the Cold War by the engineer Tadeusz Soltyk (1909-2004), exported to India and still in use by the Polish Air Force.