Table Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1929

Medium: Bakelite, wood, and chromium-plated steel
Dimensions: 18 × 17 × 18 in. (45.7 × 43.2 × 45.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Phyllis Ross in honor of Lee and Mary Rohde
Accession Number: 2023.27.1
Geography: Made in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

The designer, Huntington, N.Y.; by inheritance to his wife, Peggy Ann Mack Rohde (1911–1956), Huntington, N.Y., then Alameda, Calif., 1944; by inheritance to her step-son, Lee Rohde (1929–2024), and daughter-in-law, Mary Joan Rohde (née Ollman, born 1932), Chestertown, N.Y., then New York, 1956; given to Phyllis Ross (born 1942), New York, May 2022; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023

Bibliography

Phyllis Ross, Gilbert Rhode: Modern Design for Modern Living (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009), 28, fig. 9

Walter Rendell Storey, "Metal Craft Develops New Technique," New York Times (July 21, 1929), ill.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

tables (support furniture)

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