Design
Design
Property from a Private Ohio Collection
Charles Rohlfs
Pair of Ladder Back Chairs
Lot Closed
March 14, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Ohio Collection
Charles Rohlfs
Pair of Ladder Back Chairs
1901
oak
each carved with the maker's "sign of the saw" cipher and dated 1901
48 x 20 x 22⅜ in. (123.2 x 50.5 x 56.8 cm) each
Private Collection, circa 1970
Thence by descent to the present owner
Lola J. Diffen, ''Artistic Designing of House Furniture – A Visit to Charles Rohlfs Designer – His Shop and His Work,'' Buffalo Courier, April 22, 1900, n.p.
Isabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and America, New York, 1978, p. 103
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p. 60, no. 27 (for an example of the model in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Michael L. James, Drama in Design: The Life and Craft of Charles Rohlfs, Buffalo, 1994, p. 39
Joseph Cunningham, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, New Haven, 2008, p. 121 (for an example of the model in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
David Cathers and Susan Montgomery, So Various Are The Forms It Assumes: American Arts & Crafts Furniture from the Two Red Roses Foundation, Clearwater, FL, 2013, pp. 210-211
David Cathers and Susan J. Montgomery, Arts and Crafts Furniture from the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, FL, 2017, pp. 210-211