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Sotheby’s annual sales of Important 20th Century Design and Important Tiffany will be held in New York on 18 December 2013. The Important 20th Century Design auction will offer a curated selection of European and American decorative arts and design spanning 100 years. Leading the sale is an important and rare desk and armchair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin (desk est. $400/600,000, armchair est. $80/120,000). These rare works exemplify Wright’s design principles and stand today as defining icons of American Modernism. This particular desk design from the Johnson Commission has not appeared at auction in almost 30 years. Also highlighting American Modernism from the 1920s and 1930s is a wide breadth of works by Paul T. Frankl, including rare examples from his famous “Skyscraper” series.
The sale of Important Tiffany presents a highly curated selection of the firm’s celebrated leaded glass lighting, favrile glass and bronze fancy goods. Among the highlights is a rare “Bat” table lamp circa 1905 with an exquisite mosaic glass base embellished with bats, formerly from the collection of the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Japan (est. $550/750,000). The present lot depicts nocturnal bats flying against a midnight azure blue sky dotted with stars. Only a few examples are presently known of this exceedingly rare model, each displaying variations in color palette and leading treatment. Another extraordinary offering in the auction is an important piano designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for his studio in the Charles Tiffany Residence, 72nd Street and Madison Avenue, New York.The piano has remained in the Tiffany family since its original date of creation in 1888 and has resided in only three locations in the past 125 years (est. $200/300,000).
The exhibitions will open to the public on Saturday, 14 December 2014. The e-catalogue forImportant 20th Century Design can be found HERE, and the Important Tiffany e-catalogue can be found HERE.
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