- Product:
- Armchair/ottoman
- Manufacturer:
- Sotheby´s
- Architonic ID:
- 4103180
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Stained and silver-leafed birch, wool upholstery
33 in. (83.8 cm) high
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Allvine, Long Beach, New York
Delorenzo Gallery, New York
Christie's New York, Furniture from America's First Modernistic Home, The de Lorenzo Collection, 4 October 1980, lot 434
Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1986, lot 299
Illustrated:
Arts & Decoration, Every Week Magazine, 22 December 1929, p. 5 (for a period photograph of this armchair and ottoman shown in situ in the Allvine's lounge)
Catalogue note:
This armchair and ottoman as well as the bed offered in the subsequent lot were acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Allvine of Long Beach, New York to furnish their modernist home designed in 1929 by architect Warren Shepard Matthews. Drawing upon the principles of European modern architecture, the Allvine's sleek stucco beach-front house was praised in the period as "America's First Modernistic Home." Following their passion for modernism, the Allvines commissioned some of the most avant-garde designers working in the United States to execute furnishings for their progressive new home including Donald Deskey, Paul Frankl, Walter Von Nessen and KEM Weber.
33 in. (83.8 cm) high
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Allvine, Long Beach, New York
Delorenzo Gallery, New York
Christie's New York, Furniture from America's First Modernistic Home, The de Lorenzo Collection, 4 October 1980, lot 434
Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1986, lot 299
Illustrated:
Arts & Decoration, Every Week Magazine, 22 December 1929, p. 5 (for a period photograph of this armchair and ottoman shown in situ in the Allvine's lounge)
Catalogue note:
This armchair and ottoman as well as the bed offered in the subsequent lot were acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Allvine of Long Beach, New York to furnish their modernist home designed in 1929 by architect Warren Shepard Matthews. Drawing upon the principles of European modern architecture, the Allvine's sleek stucco beach-front house was praised in the period as "America's First Modernistic Home." Following their passion for modernism, the Allvines commissioned some of the most avant-garde designers working in the United States to execute furnishings for their progressive new home including Donald Deskey, Paul Frankl, Walter Von Nessen and KEM Weber.