Lot 81
  • 81

Louis Dierra

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Louis Dierra
  • Chair
  • glass, original fabric upholstery and brass hardware

Provenance

Collection of Evelyn Good, Cambridge, MA, circa 1940s
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

"Prophetic Panorama," House & Garden, July 1939, p. 25 (for an illustration of this model displayed at the 1939 World's Fair)
"Glass Horizons," House & Garden, August 1939, p. 50 (for a variant etched example of the model displayed at B. Altman & Co., New York)
Alastair Duncan, American Art Deco, New York, 1986, p. 38
Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, New York, 1986, p. 322 (for the model in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum)
Janet Kardon, ed., Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft, New York, 1995, p. 167
Jason T. Busch, Decorative Arts and Design:  Collection Highlights, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009, p. 105 (for the model in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art)
John Stuart Gordon, A Modern World:  American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950, New Haven, 2011, p. 87 

Condition

Overall in very good condition. The glass surfaces with a few scattered small and minor surface scratches, and some minor surface residue consistent with gentle use. The original upholstery with some minor surface wear at the piping and edges and some scattered surface dirt to the edges adjacent to the glass, all consistent with use. A rare appearance of this model from likely the original owner.
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