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T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

Klini Lounge Chair

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

1905 - 1976

Klini Lounge Chair

Designed in 1961

Walnut, leather and fabric cushions

Edited by Saridis of Athens, Greece

Numbered 77499 and with the editor's label on the underside

85 x 65 x 144 cm ; 33 ½ x 25 ⅝ x 56 ¾ in.

Piasa, Paris, 17 May 2017, lot 183

Acquired from the above

T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Carlton W.Pullin, Furniture of classical Greece, New York, 1963, p. 23, 27, 29 and 114-117

"U.S. Designer Looks Back to Ancient Greece to Create New Classics", Life, September 1961, p. 80-81

"A lost greek look retrieved", Vogue, February 1963, p. 118 and 119

Dave G.H, "The Attic Spirit: Fashion Designer's Paean to Greece in Los Angeles", Architectural Digest, September 1983, p. 107 and 109

Rene Chun, "Next Big Thing", New York, February 1996, p. 40

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