Art Deco/1950s Modern Sale

818 NORTH BOULEVARD OAK PARK, ILLINOIS

Modern Furniture and accessories
MODERN FURNITURE - a great selection featuring an important collection of: George Nakashima studio items including slab bench with spindle back, slab coffee table, four stools, stereo cabinet, etc.; an impressive private collection of Gilbert Rohde designs for Herman Miller and for the 1933 World's Fair: over 20 lots; Isamu Noguchi rare and important marble coffee table for Herman Miller; a good selection of Frank Gehry including Easy Edges, Soft Edges and Snake Lamp; Charles Eames CSS storage system, folding screen, custom white surfboard, early rockers, rosewood LCMs, etc.; George Nelson miniature jewelry cabinet, desks, Swag-leg dining table, etc.; Warren McArthur hat rack, other items; T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings - over 30 lots featuring important mesa table; Finn Juhl Chieftain chairs, Edward Wormley designs for Dunbar, Corbu sofa, Jean Prouve, Gio Ponti, Vladimir Kagan, Tommi Parzinger, John Risley, Salterini, Eero Saarinen, Ettore Sottass Jr., Pierre Paulin, Hans Wegner, Eero Aarnio, Fornasetti folding screen, Tecno lounge chair, Paul Frankl studio coffee and cork bench, Alvar Aalto cabinet and table, Bruno Mathisson day bed and lounge chair, and more.

CERAMICS - great selection of Natzler, Fantoni, Gambone, Roseville Futura, Ettore Sottsass Jr. vases for Bistosi, Cowan Pottery.

GLASS - Select Italian and Scandinavian glass, including “Porfiro”, an outstanding 15” Oriente, and a monumentatl 25” mezza filigrana by Dino Martens; a rare “apiume” vase by Archimede Seguso, a beautiful figure by Flavio Poli, Barovier & Toso works such as “intarsia”, graffito", “barabico” and “cordonato d'oro;” Venini examples such as a tall “inciso”, “acanne”, “clessidre”, and vases by Martinuzzi, Scarpa, and a fish by Ken Scott; also an outstanding pair of Fratelli Toso murrina lamps, Orrefors including “Ravenna”, “Tulpenglaser”, “Ariel;” Kosta and three Tapio Wirkkala “Kanttarelli” pieces, Sottsass.

LIGHTING - Rohde, Arteluce, Artimide, Sottsass, Weinberg, Robsjohn-Gibbings, Barovier and Toso, Cowan, Marianne Brandt, George Nelson.

MISC - Jean Dunand eggshell lacquer vase, Manning-Bowman tea sets, etc.

Auction Schedule Times

Arts & Crafts, Art Noveau ....10:00 a.m. Fine American and European Paintings....3:00 p.m. Special Event at Pleasant Home - The Kaufmann Collection November 23, 1996

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