A Cafe Australia dining chair, blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), plywood and leather designed by Marion Mahoney Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin, 1916
Estimate $12,000 – $15,000
being part of the furnishing of the 'Fern Room' in Melbourne's Cafe Australia, located at 268-274 Collins Street Melbourne. Manufactured by H. Goldman Manufacturing Co. Melbourne , the chair having an inverted pylon form back, upholstered to the upper section, the lower section having a circular upholstered seat, supported on splayed tapering square form legs joined by stretchers
97 cm high, 46 cm diameter
- Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)
Literature
Michael Bogle, 'The Cafe Australia', Australiana, Sydney, Vol. 18, No. 4, November 1996, p. 92 (illustrated, another example)
Jeff Turnbull and Peter Y. Navaretti (eds), The Griffins in Australia and India: The Complete Works and Projects of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1998, p. 136
Anne Watson (ed.), Beyond Architecture: Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin in America, Australia and India, Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 1998, pp. 128, 129, 130, (illustrated, another example)
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