LOT DETAILS

Materials:

glass, original fabric upholstery and brass hardware

Measurements:

28.74 in. (73.00 cm.) (height) by 22.76 in. (57.80 cm.) (width) by 18.62 in. (47.30 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Literature:

"Prophetic Panorama," House & Garden, July 1939, p. 25 (for an illustration of this model displayed at the 1939 World's Fair); "Glass Horizons," House & Garden, August 1939, p. 50 (for a variant etched example of the model displayed at B. Altman & Co., New York); Alastair Duncan, American Art Deco, New York, 1986, p. 38; Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, New York, 1986, p. 322 (for the model in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum); Janet Kardon, ed., Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft, New York, 1995, p. 167; Jason T. Busch, Decorative Arts and Design: Collection Highlights, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009, p. 105 (for the model in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art); John Stuart Gordon , A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950, New Haven, 2011, p. 87

Provenance:

Collection of Evelyn Good, Cambridge, MA, circa 1940s; Thence by descent to the present owner