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Vanity
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Looking at Rohde's new materials
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Art Object Info
Inspired by his visit to the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, modernist Gilbert Rohde designed a set of bedroom furniture called the “3920 Series” for the Herman Miller Furniture Company. Rohde added curvilinear shapes and richer materials to his already established vocabulary of rectilinear and geometric forms. In his transparent drawer pulls, Rohde for the first time used plastic, a new industrial material, as a decorative element.
Art Object Info
Inspired by his visit to the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, modernist Gilbert Rohde designed a set of bedroom furniture called the “3920 Series” for the Herman Miller Furniture Company. Rohde added curvilinear shapes and richer materials to his already established vocabulary of rectilinear and geometric forms. In his transparent drawer pulls, Rohde for the first time used plastic, a new industrial material, as a decorative element.