Low Back Settee, circa 1975

This Low Back Settee by Sam Maloof comes from the unique collection of Katherine M. Bonniwell, a former publisher of Life Magazine. Ms. Bonniwell was seen as a pioneering woman who broke the glass ceiling in magazine publishing, clearing a path in the late 1980s for talented women in top positions at Time, Inc. Katherine M. Bonniwell was publisher of Life Magazine from 1988 to 1991, winning two National Magazine Awards. She was responsible for increasing circulation of the magazine when the trend was the opposite for many other journals at the time. Ms. Bonniwell studied art at Vassar in the late 1960s and went on to work in auctions before she received her master’s degree in Business from Stanford in 1976.