Lot 51
  • 51

Gilbert Rohde

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Description

  • Gilbert Rohde
  • A Rare Clock, Model No. 6381
  • with firm's metal tag and branded 6381
  • aluminum, rosewood, ebonized wood, enameled metal and glass
    with an Airguide dial on the right to show temperature and relative humidity readings

Literature

Sales Management, vol. XXXIX, no. 11, November 15, 1936, n.p., Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Gilbert Rohde Scrapbook Collection, Book E
Creative Design, vol. 2, January 1937, p. 34
Electric Clocks by Herman Miller Clock Company, 1937 catalog, Zeeland, MI, 1937, n.p.

Catalogue Note

Sotheby's wishes to thank Phyllis Ross, independent scholar and author of the forthcoming monograph on Gilbert Rohde, Yale University Press, 2008, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.