Table Designer: Ely Jacques Kahn (American, 1884–1972)
Manufacturer: (tabletop) Formica Insulation Company (American, 1913–1956)

1928

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Walnut, rosewood veneer, birch, maple, and Formica

Dimensions

23 × 30 × 18 in. (58.42 × 76.2 × 45.72 cm)

Credit Line

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

Accession Number

2009.23.1

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Commissioned by Dorothy Becker Rose (1897-1980) and Alfred L. Rose (1886-1981) and Dorothy Becker Rose (1897-1980), New York 1928-81; transferred to the Estate of Alfred L. Rose, New York, 1981; purchased by Fifty/50, New York, 1981; purchased by Diane R. Wolf (1954-2008), New York by 1983-2008; Sotheby's New York, December 18, 2008, lot 152.
Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 221–22, no. 145
  • "Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 127, ill
  • Ely Jacques Kahn, Ely Jacques Kahn (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1931), 79, ill
  • Randolph Williams Sexton, The Logic of Modern Architecture: Exteriors and Interiors of Modern American Buildings (New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1929), 63, ill
  • "Interiors of the Modern Apartment House," American Architect (February 5, 1929), 170, ill
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

tables (support furniture)

Marks

"FORMICA / for FURNITURE & FIXTURES / THE FORMICA INSULATION CO. / [illegible] 4614 Spring [illegible] / CINCINNAT [illegible]," on printed label affixed under top; "2949," in graphite on underside of base

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