Live Auction 16015Design
MARCEL BREUER (1902-1981)
Lot 238 PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF JACK PRITCHARD

MARCEL BREUER (1902-1981)

A set of three nesting tables, circa 1935

Closed17 October 2018

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GBP 8,125

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MARCEL BREUER (1902-1981)
A set of three nesting tables, circa 1935
manufactured by Venesta, Estonia, for the Isokon Furniture Company Ltd., London, birch-laminated plywood
together with a set of three nesting tables of matching design, manufactured by Remploy, circa 1965, beech-laminated plywood
14 ¾ high x 24 long x 17 ¾ in. wide (37.5 x 61 x 45 cm.)
underside of each birch table impressed MADE IN ESTONIA, one marked in pencil Isokon Furniture Company

Jack Pritchard, UK;
Zeev Aram, gifted by the above circa 1965.

Specialist note

The present tables were gifted to Zeev Aram by Jack Pritchard circa 1965. Like Aram after him, Pritchard was instrumental in democratising progressive international design to the British market. Through the establishment of his London-based company Isokon in the 1930s, Pritchard provided a creative platform to émigré Bauhaus designers to include Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, establishing the narrative of progressive modernism that endures to the present day.