Desk / 'Barcelona' Armchair, Model 3758 | Phillips, de Pury & Company

Estimated value: 6000-8000 US$

Reached Price : 10157 US$

Auction:
20-21st Century Design

Sales date: 2003-06-11

Location:
New York

Lot number: 108

Design

Kaare Klint
Year 1948, designed 1927
Manufacturer Rud. Rasmussens

Architonic id

4102885

Designed 1927, produced by Rud. Rasmussens for the family in 1948 the desk: mahogany with metal pulls, with key; the armchair: mahogany and original leather upholstery, with artist's and manufacturer's labels (2)
desk: 301/4 x 737/8 x 37 in.
(76.8 x 187.6 x 94 cm)
desk, fully extended: 1091/4 in.
(277.5 cm) long
chair: 347/8 in. (88.6 cm) high

Literature:
Sigvard Bernadotte and Johs. Lehm-Laursen, Moderne Dansk Boligkunst, Odense, 1946, p. 153 (for a smaller version of the desk and the chair)
Dansk Kunsthaandværk, December 1953, advertisement, n.p. (for the desk)
Noritsugu Oda, Danish Chairs, San Francisco, 1999, p. 22 (for the chair)