American Art Deco Furniture
Rohde Child Chair
We can't find this in any of our extensive collection of 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. for Troy Sunshade catalogs or in any period literature...but here it is, a child's version of Troy's # 751 semi-arm chair, measuring only 26 1/2" high. The chair still has the remains of its decal: "Troy Streamline,...Shade Co., Troy, Ohio. Just the thing for your budding Gilbert Rohde collector.
Reference# AF011
