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William Lescaze

Armchair, from the millinery department of the Hattie Carnegie Salon

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000
$21,250
Lot Details
Chromium-plated tubular steel, leather.
circa 1931
27 3/8 x 20 5/8 x 21 1/8 in. (69.5 x 52.4 x 53.7 cm)
Catalogue Essay
Only two of the present model armchair from the Hattie Carnegie Salon are known to be extant; the other example resides in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (accession no. 2006.1271). Lescaze outfitted the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS) building as well as his own home with similar chairs (see: Domus, no. 89, May 1935, p. 15), however the proportions of the Hattie Carnegie armchairs are more diminutive.

William Lescaze

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