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Exhibition Guide

Vanity

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    Looking at Rohde's new materials

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    A reference to a car?

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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.

Medium:
East Indian rosewood, sequoia-burl veneers, ebonized plywood, vinyl-coated fabric, brass, brass-plated steel, mirrored glass, Plexiglas or Lucite
Size:
H: 50'
W: 51'
D: 16'
Date:
1939
Gift of Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore BMA 2000.226

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.

Medium:
East Indian rosewood, sequoia-burl veneers, ebonized plywood, vinyl-coated fabric, brass, brass-plated steel, mirrored glass, Plexiglas or Lucite
Size:
L: 16'
W: 51'
H: 50'
Date:
1939
Gift of Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore BMA 2000.226