Modern Design 
28 March 2013
Modern Design 
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Philip Johnson and Richard Kelly

floor lamp from the Pavilion House, Bristol

Edison Price
USA, 1953
enameled steel and aluminum 42½ h × 26 dia in (108 × 66 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $42,500
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This painted floor lamp is one of two examples commissioned for the Pavilion House designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen.
provenance: Pavilion House, Bristol, Rhode Island | Sotheby's, New York, Important 20th Century Design, 8 June 2005, Lot 8 | Private collection, New York
literature: Record Houses of 1968: Pavilion House, Architectural Record, May 1968, ppg. 80-81 Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was, Eidelberg, pg. 204

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Custom Floor Lamps

For the Pavilion House, Bristol

This lamp is one of two examples commissioned for the Pavilion House in Bristol, Rhode Island designed by the architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen. The floor lamps, one painted red and this version in blue, were installed in the living room on either side of a pair of Wassily lounge chairs by Marcel Breuer.


The Pavilion House, Bristol Rhode Island.


The living room of the Pavilion House.

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