douglas fir, steel, glass, aluminum 28 h × 77½ w × 30 d in (71 × 197 × 76 cm)
The early architectural work by Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell illustrates the creative atmosphere of modernism in the United States at mid-century. Rudolph and Twitchell set out to develop a unique style that reflected the culture and climate for which it was designed, namely the winter residences for northern sophisticates in South Florida. The prevailing theoretical concept for their work is the independent geometric, object in space, which is applied to the pavilion-type buildings they created in the low lying landscape and to the refined furniture created for the interiors.
provenance: Miller residence, Casey Key, FL | Private collection, New York
literature: Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses, Domin and King, ppg. 24-25, 61, 65-67, 92-93