Model designed in 1953.
Enameled bronze, enameled aluminium.
Provenance:
Pavilion House, Bristol, Rhode Island
Wright, Important 20th Century Design, 4 December 2005, Lot 271
Private Collection, New York
History:
Customarily produced in brass, this is one of two painted examples commissioned for the Pavilion House designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen.
Literature:
Johnson, Paul, Eidelberg, Martin, 'Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was', Harry N. Abrams (USA) 2001, p. 204
Lewis, Hilary, 'Philip Johnson: The Architect in his Own Words', Rizzoli (USA) 1994, p. 28-33.
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