$4,763
Don Powell and Robert Kleinschmidt
bed from 860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago
Interior Crafts USA, 1983 walnut, leather, chrome-plated brass 79½ w x 75½ d x 12 h in (202 x 192 x 30 cm)
result: $4,763
Powell and Kleinschmidt expanded Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona daybed design to a king-size platform with slats that adjust to various parts of the body.
Sold with a bedspread of raw silk (not shown) sourced from Gretchen Bellinger whom Powell had hired in the mid-1960s to source textiles for a library installation he was working on for SOM. Bellinger left SOM in 1976 and became one of the most influential designer/dealers in the textile industry.
provenance: Collection of Don Powell, Chicago
literature: Interior Design , September 1985, ppg. 240-241 illustrates in situ
Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2014-03-27
