Design 
27 March 2014
Design 
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Don Powell and Robert Kleinschmidt

bed from 860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Interior Crafts
USA, 1983
walnut, leather, chrome-plated brass 12 h × 79½ w × 75½ d in (30 × 202 × 192 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $4,763
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Powell and Kleinschmidt expanded Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona daybed design to a king-size platform with slats that adjust to various parts of the body. Sold with a bedspread of raw silk (not shown) sourced from Gretchen Bellinger whom Powell had hired in the mid-1960s to source textiles for a library installation he was working on for SOM. Bellinger left SOM in 1976 and became one of the most influential designer/dealers in the textile industry.
provenance: Collection of Don Powell, Chicago
literature: Interior Design, September 1985, ppg. 240-241 illustrates in situ

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860 Lake Shore Drive


Image courtesy of Jon Miller (c) Hedrich Blessing
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