Key facts

Product:
Diphros Okladias stools, pair
Manufacturer:
Sotheby´s
Architonic ID:
4109403
Launched:
1961
Country:
United Kingdom
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

Olive wood, brass and leather
13 3/8  x 31 3/4  x 27 1/4  in. (34 x 80.6 x 69.2 cm)

Provenance:
Collection of Gustave Tassel, fashion designer, Los Angeles

Literature:
"Furniture in Classical Design," Life, September 15, 1961, pp. 82-83 (for the model photographed by Loomis Dean in Delos)
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Carlton W. Pullin, Furniture of Classical Greece, New York, 1964, p. 69 and 71
Dave G. Houser, “The Attic Spirit, Fashion Designer’s Paean to Greece in Los Angeles,” Architectural Digest, September 1983, p. 107 (for the present lot illustrated)