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ALBERT GAMBETTA
Lot 488

ALBERT GAMBETTA

AN ADJUSTABLE ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1957

Closed18 December 2015

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USD 18,750

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ALBERT GAMBETTA
AN ADJUSTABLE ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1957
retailed by Luberto Design Inc., New York, tubular brass, zebra hide
32 ¾ in. (83.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

cf. D. Desilets, Morris Lapidus: The Architecture of Joy, New York, 2010, pp. 207, 208, and 232 for chairs of a highly comparable design.

Examples of this design were selected by Morris Lapidus for use in his own New York apartment, circa 1960.

We would like to thank Chris Kennedy for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.