Details
'BALL TABLE', A BUBINGA AND LACQUERED WOOD TABLE
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY ROBERT WILHITE, CIRCA 1982
The top rectangular and resting on four legs of variable length each raised up on a magenta lacquered wood sphere of variable size, stamped MADE FOR MY FRIEND FRED CUMMINGS BY ROBERT WILHITE 11/82 --48in. (121.9cm.) long, 20in. (50.8cm.) deep, 30 3/4in. (78.1cm.) high
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY ROBERT WILHITE, CIRCA 1982
The top rectangular and resting on four legs of variable length each raised up on a magenta lacquered wood sphere of variable size, stamped MADE FOR MY FRIEND FRED CUMMINGS BY ROBERT WILHITE 11/82 --48in. (121.9cm.) long, 20in. (50.8cm.) deep, 30 3/4in. (78.1cm.) high
Provenance
Frederick Cummings, acquired directly from the artist
Literature
Christopher Knight, 'Getting a Fix on Functional Art', Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, December 5, 1982, E4, the model illustrated
Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1984, pp. 62-63, cat. no. 21
Denise Domergue, Artists Design Furniture, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1984, pp. 162-3, the model illustrated
Paul Schimmel, Future Furniture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, 1985, cat. no. 40 for an illustraiton of the same model, pp. 32-33, 35-36
Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1984, pp. 62-63, cat. no. 21
Denise Domergue, Artists Design Furniture, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1984, pp. 162-3, the model illustrated
Paul Schimmel, Future Furniture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, 1985, cat. no. 40 for an illustraiton of the same model, pp. 32-33, 35-36
Exhibited
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object, March-June 1984. This exhibition traveled to Middletown, Connecticut, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, August-October 1984; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, November-December 1984; Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, January-March 1985; Brattleboro, Vermont, Brattleboro Art Center, April-June 1985, cat. no. 21