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A 'GLASSIC' LUCITE, GLASS AND WOOD COMMODE
DESIGNED BY LORIN JACKSON FOR GROSFELD HOUSE, CIRCA 1940
Rectangular, fitted with three graduated mirror-faced drawers with lucite garland, swag pulls, flanked by lucite columns--34in. (86.3cm) high, 50in. (127cm.) wide, 21¾in. (55.3cm.) deep
cf. Richardson Wright, House and Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1942 for an illustration of this commode; High Styles: Twenteth Century American Design, "The World of Tomorrow: The Future with a Past", Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Whitney Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 105-107, illustrates similar furniture by Elsie de Wolfe and Cora Scovill, further discussing designs in lucite of this period.
DESIGNED BY LORIN JACKSON FOR GROSFELD HOUSE, CIRCA 1940
Rectangular, fitted with three graduated mirror-faced drawers with lucite garland, swag pulls, flanked by lucite columns--34in. (86.3cm) high, 50in. (127cm.) wide, 21¾in. (55.3cm.) deep
cf. Richardson Wright, House and Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1942 for an illustration of this commode; High Styles: Twenteth Century American Design, "The World of Tomorrow: The Future with a Past", Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Whitney Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 105-107, illustrates similar furniture by Elsie de Wolfe and Cora Scovill, further discussing designs in lucite of this period.