American Art Deco Furniture
Gilbert Rohde Coffee Table
This unusual American Art Deco mahogany coffee table was designed by Gilbert RohdeGilbert Rohde
American [1894 - 1944]
Gilbert Rohde was one of the pioneers of American Modern design.
Starting in the late 1920's, Rohde designed furniture for clients and his own furniture retailed by others.
In 1930 he designed a line of furniture for Heywood Wakefield and beginning in 1930 until 1944 he designed for Herman Miller Company, using a variety of new materials and techniques. While Rohde designed for several other furniture manufacturers his work for Herman Miller remains his best work and some of the best work of the period.
Rohde's designs for clocks for the Herman Miller Company and lamps for the Mutual Sunset Lamp Company are classics of the Art Deco era. (1886-1958) for the Herman Miller Furniture Company in the 1930s. The lower supports are quarter circles and the upper supports are the alternate quarter circle. The glass top is anchored by two chrome balls. . A variation of Herman Miller model 7026, the table is 30” in diameter and is 18” high.
Reference# AF068
