Stripped of finish and left with raw, unrefined edges, this bentwood prototype panel offers an exceptionally rare window into the material thinking behind Frank Gehry's celebrated Cross Check Lounge Chair, developed in collaboration with Knoll in 1989. Constructed from hard white maple veneer strips laminated six to nine layers deep with high-bonding urea glue, the piece demonstrates the ingenious structural logic at the heart of the series: thermo-set assembly glue provides rigidity sufficient to eliminate metal connectors entirely, allowing the organic curves of the wood itself to bear the load. Some panels from this group retain pencil notations from the Gehry Studio indicating assembly sequence, tangible evidence of the iterative, hands-on process through which one of architecture's most celebrated figures approached furniture design. Provenance traces directly from the Gehry Studio in California to a private collection in Grand Rapids, Michigan, grounding the work firmly within the production history of a design that went on to be exhibited at NeoCon '92 in Chicago and has since entered the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide. Four prototype panels are available, each differing in size, and together they represent an unrepeatable archive of process rather than product. The absence of applied finish, far from diminishing the work, heightens its appeal: what collectors encounter here is the material in its most considered and intentional state, a record of problem-solving translated directly into form. For those drawn to the intersection of architecture, design history, and sculptural abstraction, this prototype occupies a singularly compelling position.