A PAIR OF CHROMED-METAL AND GLASS COFFEE TABLES, DESIGNED CIRCA 1934

Details

WOLFGANG HOFFMANN (1900-1969)
A Pair of Chromed-Metal and Glass Coffee Tables, designed circa 1934
manufactured by Howell Company, St. Charles, Illinois, model no. 803
17 in. (43 cm.) high, one 32½ in. (81.5 cm.) diameter, the other 26 in. (66 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, 11 June 2003, lots 38 and 39.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

cf. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917-1965," Museum Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2001, pp. 52 and 53.
R. G. Wilson, D. H. Pilgrim and D. Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, New York, 1986, p. 328.

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