Key facts

Product:
Klismos chairs, pair
Manufacturer:
Sotheby´s
Architonic ID:
4109406
Launched:
1961
Country:
United Kingdom
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

Each impressed 73931
Olive wood and leather
33 1/2  x 20 3/8  x 21 3/4  in. (85.1 x 51.7 x 55.2 cm)

Provenance:
Collection of Gustave Tassel, fashion designer, Los Angeles

Literature:
Ralph Flint, "Robsjohn-Gibbings:  Chair Maitre" ArtNews, June-July 1942, p. 22
“Robsjohn-Gibbings:  25 Years of his Work,” Interior Design, May 1961, p. 125 (for the model in the residence of Conrad Hilton, Beverly Hills, CA, 1940)
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Carlton W. Pullin, Furniture of Classical Greece, New York, 1964, p. 113 
"T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings:  1905-1976," Interior Design, December 1976, p. 207
Dave G. Houser, “The Attic Spirit, Fashion Designer’s Paean to Greece in Los Angeles,” Architectural Digest, September 1983, p. 108 (for the present lot illustrated)