LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Painted and brushed steel, aluminum, original white leatherette

Measurements:

30.98 in. (78.70 cm.) (height) by 50.98 in. (129.50 cm.) (width) by 25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Literature:

Cara Greenberg, Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s, New York, 1984, p. 95 for an example of the prototype; Cherie Fehrman and Kenneth Fehrman, Postwar Interior Design: 1945-1960, New York, 1987, p. 72 for a similar example; Martin Edelberg, ed., Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was, New York, 1990, pp. 128 and 130; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Modern Furniture Classics Since 1945, London, 1991, p. 67 for a similar example; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 188-189; Leslie Piña, Classic Herman Miller, Atglen, 1998, p. 109 for a drawing of the "Marshmallow Sofa"; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., Domus Vol. IV 1955-1959, Cologne, 2006, p. 252

Provenance:

Patio Club, King Edward Hotel, Jackson, MS, USA. Delivered and sold to the King Edward Hotel by Martin School Equipment of Jackson, 1959; Private collection, Jackson MS, USA, purchased during the closing of the Patio Club, 1965-1967; thence by descent, ca. 1997