PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN COLLECTION Gilbert Rohde Early low table for Elizabeth Kaufer 1930s Brass, glass. 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm) high, 36 in. (91.4 cm) diameter Manufactured by Valley Furniture, USA.
Provenance Elizabeth Kaufer, Buffalo, New York Acquired from the above in the 1980s Literature Leslie A. Pina, Herman Miller 1940 Catalogue and Supplement: Gilbert Rohde Modern Furniture Design, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2007, p.12 for a similar later example Catalogue Essay When he died at the age of fifty during lunch in Manhattan, Gilbert Rohde was accompanied by his assistant Elizabeth Kaufer. As she recounted, Rohde built the present model table at her request with glass locally sourced by his wife, Gladys Vorsanger. An editor at Women’s Wear Daily, Vorsanger had encouraged Rohde to travel in 1927 to Europe, where he visited the Bauhaus in Dessau and gathered inspiration from the spare forms of French Modernists such as René Herbst and Pierre Chareau Read More
PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN COLLECTION Gilbert Rohde Early low table for Elizabeth Kaufer 1930s Brass, glass. 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm) high, 36 in. (91.4 cm) diameter Manufactured by Valley Furniture, USA.
Provenance Elizabeth Kaufer, Buffalo, New York Acquired from the above in the 1980s Literature Leslie A. Pina, Herman Miller 1940 Catalogue and Supplement: Gilbert Rohde Modern Furniture Design, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2007, p.12 for a similar later example Catalogue Essay When he died at the age of fifty during lunch in Manhattan, Gilbert Rohde was accompanied by his assistant Elizabeth Kaufer. As she recounted, Rohde built the present model table at her request with glass locally sourced by his wife, Gladys Vorsanger. An editor at Women’s Wear Daily, Vorsanger had encouraged Rohde to travel in 1927 to Europe, where he visited the Bauhaus in Dessau and gathered inspiration from the spare forms of French Modernists such as René Herbst and Pierre Chareau Read More
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