A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

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T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

A Pair of Torchères for the Casa Encantada

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

1903 - 1976


A Pair of Torchères for the Casa Encantada, Bel Air, California

each stamped with maker's label Sans Epoque/Robsjohn-Gibbings

madrone and gilt metal

height (each): 83 ¾ in. 213 cm.

Executed circa 1937. 

Mrs. J. O. Weber, Casa Encantada, Bel Air, California (commissioned from the artist in 1937)

Conrad Hilton, Casa Encantada, Bel Air, California (acquired from the above)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 December 1980, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Sotheby's, New York, 11 June 1997, lot 268 (consigned from the above)

Eric Phillippe, Paris (acquired from the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner through Peter Marino

"Residence of Mrs. Hilda Boldt Weber, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California," Architectural Digest, vol. 10, no. 3, January 1941, n.p., illustrated

Anne Bony, Furniture & Interiors of the 1940s, Paris, 2003, p. 101, illustrated

Sam Watters, Houses of Los Angeles: 1920-1935, vol. II, New York, 2007, p. 346, illustrated

Peter J. Holliday, American Arcadia, California and the Classical Tradition, New York, 2016, pp. 249-54 (for a discussion of the Casa Encantada commission)

Daniella Ohad Smith, "T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings: Crafting a Modern Home for Postwar America," Journal of Interior Design, vol. 34, no. 1, 2008, pp. 42-44 (for a discussion of the Casa Encantada commission)