DESIGNED BY T.H. ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS AND EXECUTED BY THE PETERSON STUDIOS FOR THE CASA ENCANTADA, BEL-AIR, CALIFORNIA, CIRCA 1937

Of using classical motifs, Robsjohn-Gibbings said "the designers of furniture in America today stand at the crossroads between two great epochs. Behind them lie four decades of academic reproductions of the antique periods. Before them is the formation of a contemporary American style." "Robsjohn-Gibbings: Chair Maitre", Art News, June/July 1942, p. 22/23