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AN IMPORTANT INLAID HONDURAS MAHOGANY WRITING DESK
DESIGNED BY GREENE & GREENE AND EXECUTED IN THE WORKSHOPS OF PETER HALL FOR THE LIVING ROOM OF THE ROBERT R. BLACKER HOUSE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, CIRCA 1907
The cabinet on stand with finely carved and raised inlay on the front depicting gnarled evergreen boughs and needles in fruitwood, copper and silver dropping to reveal an interior of pigeonholes, cupboards and drawers, resting on a three drawer table with cloud-form corbels --47 1/8in. (120 cm.) high, 50½in. (128.3cm.) wide, 26½in. (67.3cm.) deep
DESIGNED BY GREENE & GREENE AND EXECUTED IN THE WORKSHOPS OF PETER HALL FOR THE LIVING ROOM OF THE ROBERT R. BLACKER HOUSE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, CIRCA 1907
The cabinet on stand with finely carved and raised inlay on the front depicting gnarled evergreen boughs and needles in fruitwood, copper and silver dropping to reveal an interior of pigeonholes, cupboards and drawers, resting on a three drawer table with cloud-form corbels --47 1/8in. (120 cm.) high, 50½in. (128.3cm.) wide, 26½in. (67.3cm.) deep
Literature
Anderson, Moore and Winter, Editors, California Design 1910, Peregrine Smith, Inc., Santa Barbara, 1974, p. 104; Randell L. Makinson, Greene & Greene, Architecture as a Fine Art, Peregrine Smith, Inc., Santa Barbara, 1977, pp. 150-155 for a discussion of the commission and exterior and interior photographs of the house; Randell L. Makinson, Greene & Greene, Furniture and Related Designs, Peregrine Smith, Inc., Santa Barbara, 1979, p. 63 for an illustration of the desk, Wendy Kaplan, et al, "The Art that is Life", Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1987, p. 49 for a color plate and pp. 402-404 for a discussion of the commission, photographs of the piece in situ and detail of the inlay in the desk front
Exhibited
Pasadena, Pasadena Center, California Design 1910 Exhibition, October 15-December 1, 1974;
Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, "The Art that is Life", March 4-May 31, 1987
Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Museum of Art, "The Art that is Life", August 16-November 1, 1987
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, "The Art that is Life", December 9, 1987-February 28, 1988
New York, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, "The Art that is Life", April 5-June 26, 1988
Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, "The Art that is Life", March 4-May 31, 1987
Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Museum of Art, "The Art that is Life", August 16-November 1, 1987
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, "The Art that is Life", December 9, 1987-February 28, 1988
New York, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, "The Art that is Life", April 5-June 26, 1988