BD493
Set of 4 chairs and pair of armchairs with extending dining table by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Mid 20th C.
28.5" high, 70" wide, 40" deep & chairs 34" high, 21.5" wide, 23" 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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