Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 433

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
DESIGN FOR A CHAIR KENT, ROCKWELL. Ink drawing, small sketch of two chairs from the side and above, with 14 lines of related notes in holograph, on the verso of a blank sheet of Creative Art Magazine stationery. 1 page, 4to. [New York, 1927-29]
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"Let us consider, in illustration, the fairly simple problem of the common straight chair. What are its essentials. The chair must be reasonably comfortable. It must be strong. . . . Strong, light and inexpensive: we shall choose . . . a native hard wood. Maple will do . . . ."
Kent was a member of the editorial staff of Creative Art between 1927 and 1929.