A ROSEWOOD DINING TABLE

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, THE EXECUTION ATTRIBUTED TO RICHARD FAHNKOW, BERLIN, FOR PHILIP JOHNSON'S NEW YORK APARTMENT, CIRCA 1934

Details

A ROSEWOOD DINING TABLE
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the execution attributed to Richard Fahnkow, Berlin, for Philip Johnson's New York apartment, circa 1934
Rectangular, on four square legs, the underside with cloth label typed 7.685 Johnson and marked in charcoal 25x20 25 3 41115
29 1/8in. (74cm.) high, 70¾in. (180cm.) long, 31½in. (80cm.) deep

Provenance

Philip Johnson
241 East 49th Street apartment, 1934
9 Ash Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942
The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949

Literature

Architectural Forum, December 1943
George Nelson, Living Spaces, Interiors Library 1, 1952, p. 118
Hilary Lewis and John O'Connor, Philip Johnson, The Architect in His Own Words, 1994, pp. 20-21, p. 25.
Mary Roche, New York Times Magazine, "Living in a Glass House", August 14, 1949

Lot Essay

This table first appears in photographs from the Mies van der Rohe archive at the Museum of Modern Art of Johnson's apartment at 241 East 49th Street, circa 1934. See Ludwig Glaeser, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Furniture and Furniture Drawings from the Design Collection and the Mies van der Rohe Archive, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1977, p. 13 and p. 84 for other examples of this model.