Lounge chairs with ottoman (2)
Widdicomb
walnut
new upholstery
very good condition
h 82 / w 65 / d 77 cm
Two neat lounge chairs with matching Ottoman that are a classic example of T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings' designs. The newly upholstered cushions provide exquisite seating comfort. Manufactured by Widdicomb. 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.