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Important Design 
Gilbert Watrous, floor lamp - Image 1 of 3
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Gilbert Watrous

floor lamp

Bergboms
USA, 1951
enameled steel, brass, enameled aluminum 43 h × 15 w × 48 d in (109 × 38 × 122 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $5,625
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This design received the special prize in the Museum of Modern Art's Low Cost Lighting competition of 1951.
Signed with impressed manufacturer's mark to base: [G-39 Bergbom].
literature: Arts & Architecture, May 1951, unpaginated Interiors, April 1951, pg. 138 Modern Furnishings for the Home, Hennessey, pg. 245

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