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Rare and Important Chess table, model IN-61
Rare and Important Chess table, model IN-61
Herman Miller
USA, 1944
ebonized ash plywood, painted cast aluminum, acrylic inlays, brass, steel 19½ h × 26¼ w × 25¼ d in (50 × 67 × 64 cm)
USA, 1944
ebonized ash plywood, painted cast aluminum, acrylic inlays, brass, steel 19½ h × 26¼ w × 25¼ d in (50 × 67 × 64 cm)
estimate: $150,000–200,000
result: $233,000
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Wright would like to thank The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum and for their assistance cataloguing the present lot.
provenance: Private Collection
literature: Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design, Eisenbrand, Posch and von Vegesack, ppg. 78-79, 126-127, 287 The Imagery of Chess Revisited, List and Schaffner, cover, ppg. vi, 129, 131 Design 1935-65, What Modern Was, Eidelberg, ppg. 107-108 Interiors Library 2: Chairs, Nelson, pg. 33