- Product:
- Armchair
- Manufacturer:
- Phillips
- Architonic ID:
- 4102862
- Launched:
- 1939
- Country:
- United States
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Glass and metal
291/8 in. (74 cm)
Literature:
Prophetic Panorama, House and Garden, July 1939, p. 25 (for a color rendering of the chairs at the New York World's Fair)
Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941,
New York, 1986, p. 322
Janet Kardon, ed., Craft in the machine Age, 1920-1945: the history of twentieth-century
American craft, New York, 1995, p. 167
Was there an Allegheny Modernist Movement? The aluminum, glass and steel designs of industry that were manufactured in the rust-belted river valleys near Pittsburgh are linked more by geography and time than by a unified aesthetic. Yet there is still research to be done about some of the firms and designers who came from this part of America. This rare glass chair with its curving lines and floating seat, believed to have been produced only for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company's stand at the 1939 New York World's Fair, is one of the masterpieces of the Machine Age. Another example is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
291/8 in. (74 cm)
Literature:
Prophetic Panorama, House and Garden, July 1939, p. 25 (for a color rendering of the chairs at the New York World's Fair)
Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941,
New York, 1986, p. 322
Janet Kardon, ed., Craft in the machine Age, 1920-1945: the history of twentieth-century
American craft, New York, 1995, p. 167
Was there an Allegheny Modernist Movement? The aluminum, glass and steel designs of industry that were manufactured in the rust-belted river valleys near Pittsburgh are linked more by geography and time than by a unified aesthetic. Yet there is still research to be done about some of the firms and designers who came from this part of America. This rare glass chair with its curving lines and floating seat, believed to have been produced only for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company's stand at the 1939 New York World's Fair, is one of the masterpieces of the Machine Age. Another example is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.