- Product:
- Writing desk
- Manufacturer:
- Phillips
- Architonic ID:
- 4102859
- Country:
- United States
- Category:
- Office furniture
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- Telephone
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Key facts
Product description
Manufactured by the Societé Industrielle d'Art, Paris, for Heals and Sons Ltd., London; mirrored glass and ebonized wood
207/8 x 551/2 x 293/4 in.
(53 x 141 x75.5 cm)
Provenance:
Martin Battersby
Sotheby's london, October 19, 1990, lot 347
Literature:
Martin Battersby, The Decorative Thirties, London, 1971, p. 111
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., 30s/40s Decorative Art, Cologne, 2000, pp. 182 and 194 (for other interiors by Block)
Robert Block was the director of Studio Athelia at Trois Quartiers in Paris. A similar dressing table in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, has been included in the 2003-2004 exhibition Art Deco, 1910-1939.
207/8 x 551/2 x 293/4 in.
(53 x 141 x75.5 cm)
Provenance:
Martin Battersby
Sotheby's london, October 19, 1990, lot 347
Literature:
Martin Battersby, The Decorative Thirties, London, 1971, p. 111
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., 30s/40s Decorative Art, Cologne, 2000, pp. 182 and 194 (for other interiors by Block)
Robert Block was the director of Studio Athelia at Trois Quartiers in Paris. A similar dressing table in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, has been included in the 2003-2004 exhibition Art Deco, 1910-1939.