Pair of armchairs Designer: Alfons Bach (American, born Germany, 1904–1999)
Manufacturer: Lloyd Manufacturing Company (a division of Heywood-Wakefield Company) (American, 1920–1978)

ca. 1934

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Chrome-plated steel tube, plywood

Dimensions

31 1/2 × 20 × 21 1/2 in. (80 × 50.8 × 54.6 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the designer, Alfons Bach

Accession Number

1991.83.1.1-2

Geography

Made in Menominee, Michigan

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Bibliography
  • Kristina Wilson, Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design during the Great Depression (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004), 49-51, fig. 1.25
  • "Acquisitions 1991," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1992), 155
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
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Object/Work type

armchairs

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