Key facts

Product:
Table architecture, model no. 389/496
Manufacturer:
Phillips
Architonic ID:
4104487
Country:
United States

Product description

A set of four candleholders with accompanying circular centerpiece
glass (5)
bowl: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm) high
7 3/4 in. (19.2 cm) diameter
each candlestick: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm) high

Literature:
THE CAMBRIDGE GLASS COMPANY, BROCHURE, January 1, 1940, p. 42
J. Stewart Johnson, AMERICAN MODERN, 1925-1940: DESIGN FOR A NEW AGE, New York, 2000, pp. 56-57

Wilber Orme was an in-house designer employed by the Cambridge Glass Company in Cambridge, Ohio. A lifelong native of Southeastern Ohio's glass and china belt, Orme is one of those names in the American Modern canon who would remain utterly buried in the obscure annals of depression glass