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Warren Platner

executive desk

Lehigh Leopold
USA, c. 1965
stainless steel, walnut, leather, aluminum 30 h × 96 w × 40 d in (76 × 244 × 102 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $16,640
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Desk features two drawers. Signed with applied manufacturer's label to drawer: [Litton Designed for Lehigh-Leopold by Warren Platner].
provenance: Wright, Modern Design, 3 October 2004, Lot 560 | Private collection
literature: Ten by Warren Platner, Platner, pg. 95

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Warren Platner 1919–2006

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Warren Platner (1919—2006) was an American architect and interior designer whose seminal furniture collection produced by Knoll International remains an icon of 1960s modernism today. In 1941, Platner graduated with a degree in architecture from Cornell and soon went to work for the renowned Raymond Loewy and I.M. Pei between 1945—1950 later earning the Rome Prize in architecture in 1955.

While working in the office of Eero Saarinen during the mid-1960s, he released a collection of chairs, ottomans, and tables that has been in continuous production by Knoll ever since. The collection is both elegant and understated consisting of steel wire furniture that rests on a sculptural base of nickel-plated steel rods. The following year he opened his firm Warren Platner Associates later designing the highly regarded interiors of the Ford Foundation headquarters in 1967, Georg Jensen Design Center in 1968, and the glamorous Windows on the World restaurant of the World Trade Center, New York in 1976.

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