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27 October 2022
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Philip Johnson and Richard Kelly

Floor lamp from the Pavilion House, Bristol

Edison Price
USA, 1953 / 1966
enameled bronze, enameled aluminum 41½ h × 25 dia in (105 × 63 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $10,000
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Customarily produced in brass, this is one of two painted examples commissioned for the Pavilion House designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen.
provenance: Pavilion House, Bristol, Rhode Island | Private Collection, New York | Wright, Important 20th Century Design, 4 December 2005, Lot 271 | Important Private Collection, New York
literature: Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was, Eidelberg, pg. 204 Philip Johnson: The Architect in his Own Words, Lewis and O'Connor, ppg. 28-33

This work will ship from Wright in Chicago, Illinois.

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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 blue and this version in red, were installed in the living room on either side of a pair of Wassily lounge chairs by Marcel Breuer.
 

The Pavilion House, also known as the Millet House, designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen. Image courtesy of Jacobsen Architecture LLC

Richard [Kelly] founded the art of residential lighting the day he designed the lighting for the Glass House.

Philip Johnson

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