Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

Samuel Yellin

Pair of Andirons for the Office of Mr. Downs, Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania

Auction Closed

May 25, 06:32 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Samuel Yellin

Pair of Andirons for the Office of Mr. Downs, Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania

1927

hand-wrought iron

each impressed SAMUEL YELLIN

i. 42 x 11 3/8 x 27 in. (106.7 x 28.9 x 68.6 cm)

ii. 41 3/4 x 12 x 27 in. (106 x 30.5 x 68.6 cm)

Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania
The George Westinghouse Museum, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania
Real Estate Developer
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Sarah D. Coffin and Stephen Harrison, The Jazz Age: American Style in 1920s, exh. cat., Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 2017, p. 108 (for related andirons for the Westinghouse Air Brake Company)
Joseph Cunningham, The Metalwork of Samuel Yellin, chapter 12, forthcoming, 2022 (for the present lot illustrated and discussed)