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GILBERT A. WATROUS Floor Lamp, Model No. F-1-W, ca. 1950 manufactured by the Heifetz Company stee...

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GILBERT A. WATROUS Floor Lamp, Model No. F-1-W, ca. 1950 manufactured by the Heifetz Company stee...
GILBERT A. WATROUS
Floor Lamp, Model No. F-1-W, ca. 1950
manufactured by the Heifetz Company
steel tubing and fiberglass shade
approximately 47 in. (119.4 cm) high
Estimate: $6,000-8,000 <p>PROVENANCE
Yasha Heifetz, personal collection <p>LITERATURE
"Lamp Competition: A New Flexibility
in Machines for Lighting," Interiors,
April 1951, p. 138
William J. Hennessey, Modern Furnishings for the Home,
New York, 1952, p. 245
Cara Greenberg, Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s, New York,
1995, p. 113
<p>In 1950, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Heifetz Company sponsored a competition for portable table and floor lamp designs employing incandescent bulbs. The museum received over 3,000 entries. Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and Richard Kelly were among the jurists who awarded California designer Gilbert Watrous the one special prize for the best floor lamp for the model offered here.
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