Sam Maloof - Design New York Tuesday, June 11, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Mary Jane Langham, Los Angeles, California
    Thence by descent

  • Literature

    Sam Maloof, Sam Maloof: Woodworker, Tokyo, 1983, pp. 47, 61, 118–127 for various rocking chairs, including the present model
    Jeremy Adamson, The Furniture of Sam Maloof, exh. cat., The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., 2001, inset and pp. 176, 179, 190, 192–193
    Jeannine Falino, ed., Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, exh. cat., Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2011, p. 240 for an early example of the model in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York

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Rocking chair

1988
Teak, ebony.
44 1/4 x 25 3/4 x 45 3/4 in. (112.4 x 65.4 x 116.2 cm)
Underside incised with No. 39 1988/Sam Maloof f.A.C.C. and ©.

Estimate
$35,000 - 45,000 

Sold for $37,500

Contact Specialist
Meaghan Roddy
Head of Sale
mroddy@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1266

Design

New York 11 June 2013 11am