BD490
Slipper chair by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Mid 20th C.
31.5" high,
22" wide, 25" deep
Terence
Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905 - 1976). British born architect and furniture
designer, Robsjohn-Gibbings studied architecture at London University. He afterwards
worked briefly as a naval architect, designing ocean liner interiors, and then
as art director for a motion picture studio. In 1926, he became a salesman for
an antiques dealer who specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture, and
Robsjohn-Gibbings was assigned prominent accounts such as Elizabeth Arden and
Neiman Marcus. In the late 1930s and in the Forties, he was the most important
decorator in America. After opening a shop on New York's Madison Avenue in 1936,
Robsjohn-Gibbings proceeded to design houses from coast to coast for such scions
as tobacco heiress Doris Duke, Alfred A. Knopf and Thelma Chrysler Foy. The
design work of T. H. Robsjohn Gibbings is hallmarked as a modern mixture of
the classical elements of Ancient Greecian design and of Art Deco period design.
It features mosaic floor reproductions, sculptural fragments, and sparse furnishings,
all combining to achieve his trademark brand of modern historicism.
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