May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(DESIGN)
Mini-archive of more than 90 photographs depicting iconic 20th-century residential and corporate interiors, cutting-edge furnishings, and bold textiles by American and European designers, including Alexander Girard and Finn Juhl, by various photographers; with 38 photographs by Ben Schnall and 9 contact sheets by Louis Reens. Silver prints, from 4x5 1/2 to 11x8 inches (11.2x14 to 25.4x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, many with red grease pencil cropping notations on recto and hand stamps and notations, in pencil, on verso. 1950s-70s

Additional Details

With 8 photographs of dynamic interiors of the Danish designer and architect Finn Juhl (1912-1989) by the photographer Struewing; 9 prints of Alexander Girard's geometric fabric designs for Herman Miller by photographers Carl Ruff and Elmer Astleford, and 3 images relating to Girard; 38 of Ben Schnall's photographs of interiors for Olin Mathiesen; 8 prints depicting Stephen White's "lanterns;" a Cerf Ross interior; and more.