LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Stack-laminated rosewood, original Herculite plate glass
Measurements:
28.74 in. (73.00 cm.) (height) by 82.99 in. (210.80 cm.) (width) by 34.37 in. (87.30 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
Glass top etched with HERCULITE/PLATE GLASS/AS G.
Literature:
ILLUSTRATED; Recent Work by Edward D. Stone, The Architectural Forum, July 1941, pp. 13-14, 16; House and Garden, October 1941, front cover; James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford, Design of Modern Interiors, New York, 1942, p. 53; Edward Durell Stone, The Evolution of an Architect, New York, 1962, p. 63; Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York, 1980, p. 28, cat. no. 162; Lisa Phillips and David Hanks, et. al., High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1985, p. 119, fig. 3.33; Derek E. Ostergard, George Nakashima, Full Circle, exh. cat., American Craft Museum, New York, 1989, p. 52; Bruce Altshuler, Noguchi, New York, 1994, p. 51, fig. 53; Barbara Haskell, American Century Art & Culture, 1900 - 1950, New York, 1999, p. 292, fig. 563; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Isamu Noguchi, Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, p. 114; Surreal Things, Surrealism and Design, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2007, p. 92; Garrett White, Genevieve Cortinovis, Amanda Thorpe, Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, New York, 2007, p. 25; Amy J. Wolf, On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and his Contemporaries, exh. cat., Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Long Island City, 2011, p. 110; Hicks Stone, Edward Durell Stone: A Son's Untold Story of a Legendary Architect, New York, 2011, p. 79, fig. 79; Caroline Zaleski, Long Island Modernism 1930-1980, New York, 2012, p. 136
Provenance:
A. Conger Goodyear, Old Westbury, New York, 1939; New York Institute of Technology, gifted circa 1975-1980; Dr. Alexander Schure, circa 1994; Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, circa 2002; Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003