£35,200
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | 695
Auction: 28 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
for Isokon, stained ash plywood and brass
Provenance:
Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, U.S;
Sandy and Sherwin Schreier, Southfield, Michigan, U.S.
Literature:
Ostergard, Derek (ed.), Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946, New York, 1987, p. 319, fig. 107 (probably this example illustrated)
This trolley design is Summers' only documented design for the company Isokon. Isokon was founded by Jack Pritchard and Welles Coates and they sold furniture by other mid-century modernist designers such as Alvar Aalto and Marcel Breuer. The design featured in the Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850 - 1946, September 1986 to October 1988, organised by The American Federation of Arts and which travelled to nine institutions around the US.