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Alberto Marconetti / Italian Post-War Design Armchairs c. 1960’s

ALBERTO MARCONETTI Milan, Italy (active Argentina)
Armchairs (Two available) c. 1960’s
Oak, painted iron, leather strapwork and seat
Marks: by Alberto Marconetti (script signature)
H: 40 1/2” x W: 27” x D: 21”
Seat height: 19″
Price: $7,450 (each)
This pair of armchairs nods to the influence of such Italian designers as Carlo Bugatti and Carlo Mollino yet are their own unique creation. They have an unusual anthropomorphic quality in that the frame suggests a skeletal structure. In addition, the leather strapwork, iron loops and hooks allude to the equipage of the ancient Roman equestrian order.
Alberto Marconetti / Italian Post-War Design Armchairs c. 1960’s
In the Style of JEAN-MICHEL FRANK (1895 – 1941) France
Pair of “Rodo” chairs 20th Century
Light ceruse oak with red Hermès sueded leather
For more information see: Jean-Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the Art Deco period, P.E. Martin-Vivier (Paris, 2006)
H: 32 1/2″
Mayo Martin Johnson (b. 1904) USA
“Summit Conference” 1960
Patinated bronze with a verdigris patina in the recessed areas and natural bronze highlights, original wooden plinth / base.
Marks: Red painted museum accession marks
For more information see: American Art, ed. Peter Hastings Falk (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985) p. 317.
H: 10 ¼” on plinth
Price: $6,000
ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
LIBERTY & COMPANY London, UK
Cymric tri-handled covered server 1904
Sterling silver with repoussé Celtic knot motifs and three buttress handles; the handle of the domed lid inset with a jelly opal, cylindrical crystal bowl.
Marks: No. 5199, Liberty & Co., CYMRIC and Birmingham assay marks for 1904 (all the marks appear both on the underside of the base and on the cover)
W: 7 1/4″ x D: 7 1/4″ x H: 2″
Price: $28,000
SCHOOL OF MACKINTOSH (1868-1928) UK
Box with hinged cover c. 1900
Silver plate with a large abstract heart design and stylized Glasgow rose motifs in bas-relief.
Illustrated: Modern Silver throughout the world, 1880-1967, Graham Hughes (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1967), p. 145.
H: 2″ x W: 6 1/4″ x D: 4 3/4″