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Armchair

Gerald SummersWW-1934-144758
1934·Bent plywood, paint·30 1/4 × 24 × 37 1/2 in., 20 lb. (76.8 × 61 × 95.3 cm, 9.1 kg)

Purchase, The Cynthia Hazen Polsky Fund and Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, 1994

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Year
1934
Dimensions
30 1/4 × 24 × 37 1/2 in., 20 lb. (76.8 × 61 × 95.3 cm, 9.1 kg)

Artist

Gerald Summers
Gerald Summers

Gerald Summers was a British designer and craftsman working primarily in bent plywood furniture during the mid-twentieth century. His approach to laminated wood construction anticipated industrial production methods while maintaining an emphasis on material integrity and sculptural form. Active from the 1930s onward, Summers developed a distinctive vocabulary of curved, organic forms that influenced modernist furniture design in Britain and beyond.

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WW-1934-M003172

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Year
1934
Dimensions
30 1/4 × 24 × 37 1/2 in., 20 lb. (76.8 × 61 × 95.3 cm, 9.1 kg)
Watts ID
WW-1934-144758

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Artist

Gerald Summers

Gerald Summers

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