Lot 146
146
BARBRA STREISAND

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BARBRA STREISAND
A custom-made folding director's chair of burgundy painted wood with black leather backrest tooled on either side with plain letters spelling BARBRA STREISAND, black leather seat and armrests tooled with a simple leaf motif and matching detachable script pouch tooled with the initial B - 46 x 22in. (116.8 x 55.9cm.); and a carbon copy of a typescript memo from Dick Rubin to Carl Deere, January 21st, 1974, regarding the Special Leather Chair telling him ..The following instructions are very explicit and must be followed to the letter. She is very demanding and uncompromising on the matter of quality and workmanship.. and continuing with an itemised list of nine instructions including:
1. Leather is to be dyed black and fully rubbed so that the color (sic) is fast and will not effect clothes of person sitting in chair.
2. Seat should be reinforced to prevent sagging.
3. Any tooling must be relatively plain with no western connotation.
4. Lettering on chair back should be done on both sides and read: BARBRA STREISAND
5. Lettering should be in plain straight block letters and special care should be exercised in spelling the names correctly...; another carbon copy of a memo from Dick Rubin to Howard Pine of Columbia Production, December 17th, 1973 regarding work to be performed on Streisand's stage trailer at her request and mentioning the chair ..I am putting into work this week a high director chair for Barbara to be painted red and to be covered by special black leather, name to be tooled.. adding ...I suggest that we get this work in progress for first thing we know she will [be] reporting for rehearsals...; and a burgundy wool carpet sample labelled Sample for B.S. Chair attached to a page of Dick Rubin's autograph notes for the Trailer Work Estimate. (4)
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At the time of this chair's production Streisand was working on the film For Pete's Sake. The first film she personally directed was Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy in 1983, however this chair apparantly accompanied her on the sets of numerous films from the 1970s onwards.

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