Lot Essay
cf. Robert A.M. Stern, ed., International Design Yearbook 1985/86, 1986, p.170 and R. Craig Miller, Modern Design 1890-1990 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p.220-221 for an illustration of this service; J. Capella and Q. Larrea, Designed by Architects in the 1908s, 1988, p.22 for a discussion on the artist