Lot 280
- 280
Robert Venturi
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Robert Venturi
- Six Dining Chairs
- "Chippendale" chairs each with producer's label
- molded laminated plywood and fabric upholstery
comprising two "Chippendale" and four "Empire" chairs executed in the "Grandmother Fabric" pattern
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner for the Hubbard House, Nantucket, 1986
Literature
David B. Brownlee, David G. De Long, and Kathryn Hiesinger, Out of the Ordinary: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Associates, Philadelphia, 2001, pp. 156 (for the Hubbard House), 201 and 209 (for the "Chippendale" model), and 210 (for the "Empire" model)
Catalogue Note
The present dining chairs are from the Hubbard House in Nantucket, Massachusetts, designed by Robert Venturi in 1981-1986.