Worlds within Worlds | Works from the Collection of Peter Petrou
Worlds within Worlds | Works from the Collection of Peter Petrou
Lot Closed
September 21, 03:32 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Gerald Summers
1899-1967
Isokon Trolley
stained ash plywood and brass
68.5cm. high, 95.5cm. wide, 43cm. deep; 2ft. 2½in., 3ft.1¼in., 1ft. 4in.; narrower side: 25.5cm.. deep; 10in.
Conceived circa 1937-1938.
Probably that illustrated by Derek Ostergard, Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850 - 1946, 1987, New York, p.107 (illustrated)
In the 1930's, Gerald Summers (co-founder of Makers of Simple Furniture) and Jack Pritchard (the founder of Isokon) were leading the British Modernist design movement and they were linked by a common material. Gerald Summers designed all the furniture for his company and Pritchard recognised the genius of others, importing Alvar Aalto's work and employing emigrés such as Marcel Breuer to design for Isokon. Furniture by these designers, including this trolley, were incorporated in the most iconic Modernist building in London, the Lawn Road Flats (or Isokon building) in Hampstead, in which both Pritchard and Breuer lived.