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Property from the Private Collection of William H. Straus

Gilbert Rohde, Occasional Table, Model No. 3945

Lot Closed

October 7, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Gilbert Rohde

Occasional Table, Model No. 3945


circa 1939

manufactured by Herman Miller Furniture Company

glass, Lucite, brass

15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm) high

34 in. (86.4 cm) diameter

Herman Miller, Gilbert Rohde Modern Design, Atglen, PA, 1939, pp. 21 (for a related model), 28, 35

David Hanks and Derek Ostergard, Gilbert Rohde, exhibition pamphlet, Washburn Gallery, New York, 1981, n.p.

Leslie A. Piña, Herman Miller: Interior Views, Atglen, PA, 1998, p. 35

The Alliance of Art and Industry: Toledo Designs for a Modern America, exh. cat., New York, 2002, p. 180

Alexander Payne and James Zemaitis, The Coffee Table Coffee Table Book, London, 2003, pp. 17 (for a period photograph of the model, 1940) and 49 (for a related model)

Phyllis Ross, Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living, New Haven, 2009, front cover and pp. 180, 195 (for a period photograph of the model in the Herman Miller Furniture Company showroom, Chicago, 1939) and 197 (for a related model)

The Alliance of Art and Industry: Toledo Designs for a Modern America, Toledo Museum of Art, OH, March 24–June 16, 2002

The Ohio Art’s Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, August 8, 2002-October 19, 2002

San Francisco Airport Museums, San Francisco, CA, January-July, 2003