- Product:
- Chaise Longue
- Manufacturer:
- Sotheby´s
- Architonic ID:
- 4103484
- Launched:
- 1945
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Oak frame, woven oak and hickory basketry
The covering by Ozark Mountain basket weavers
33 1/4 x 66 x 28 in. (86.6 x 167.5 x 71 cm)
A native of Arkansas, in 1945 Edward Durrell Stone was contracted by the Fulbright family to design a line of furniture using wooden farm implements manufactured in the family’s factory in Fayetteville. Sections of the furniture were woven with oak and hickory strips by Ozark Mountain basket weavers, or “country people'' as Stone referred to them in his autobiography. This integration of recycled factory-produced components with handcraft, and the extension of the technology from an existing project to a tangential one was a design philosophy being contemporaneously explored by Charles and Ray Eames, especially in their children’s furniture and plywood animals of 1945.
The Fulbright furniture series apparently never reached mass-production, as there are relatively few known examples today. The chaise lounge is the second example of the model to have appeared on the market in recent years, while the dining table and chair set in the following lot is possibly unique.
Literature:
William J. Hennessey, Modern Furnishing for the Home, New York, 1952, p. 72
George Nelson, Chairs, New York, 1953, p. 81
Edward Durell Stone, Edward Durell Stone: The Evolution of an Architect, New York, 1962, pp. 87, 97 and 103
The covering by Ozark Mountain basket weavers
33 1/4 x 66 x 28 in. (86.6 x 167.5 x 71 cm)
A native of Arkansas, in 1945 Edward Durrell Stone was contracted by the Fulbright family to design a line of furniture using wooden farm implements manufactured in the family’s factory in Fayetteville. Sections of the furniture were woven with oak and hickory strips by Ozark Mountain basket weavers, or “country people'' as Stone referred to them in his autobiography. This integration of recycled factory-produced components with handcraft, and the extension of the technology from an existing project to a tangential one was a design philosophy being contemporaneously explored by Charles and Ray Eames, especially in their children’s furniture and plywood animals of 1945.
The Fulbright furniture series apparently never reached mass-production, as there are relatively few known examples today. The chaise lounge is the second example of the model to have appeared on the market in recent years, while the dining table and chair set in the following lot is possibly unique.
Literature:
William J. Hennessey, Modern Furnishing for the Home, New York, 1952, p. 72
George Nelson, Chairs, New York, 1953, p. 81
Edward Durell Stone, Edward Durell Stone: The Evolution of an Architect, New York, 1962, pp. 87, 97 and 103