T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings

An unusually beautiful pair of T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings oak floor lamps from 1946 for The Straus House. From the estate of Carol A. Straus, Texas, where at the time Gibbings was commissioned to custom design the entire interior. The floor lamps each come with tapered, fluted stand ending in a biomorphic foot. The shades are re-covered in very high quality fabric. Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings is a British-born architect, decorator, furniture designer, tastemaker and thinker whose innovative ideas in interior design during the postwar era have had a formative impact on American interior taste. In the emergence of middleclass US-American style during the formative years of modernism the studied architect has a significant role in steering popular taste away from Art Moderne toward a genuine US-American modernism shared with Paul Mccobb, Estelle & Levine Laverne and Edward Wormley.