Edward Wormley for Dunbar Tulip Side Table #5620; Near Mint, Rare Condition

Description: Payment | Shipping | Additional Information | Policies Edward Wormley for Dunbar Tulip Side Table #5620; Near Mint, Rare Condition Striking all original Tulip Side Table by Edward Wormley for Dunbar. Originally introduced in 1956 as model number 5620. Dunbar brass label on the underside of the base of the table. Original 1/2" glass top measures 29" in diameter. The table stands 23" tall. In excellent, near-mint condition. Structurally perfect. There are two small vacuum cleaner dents on the block feet, and one foot has a worn edge to one of the corners. The rest of the piece is as near to flawless as a vintage piece can be. One of the rubber bumpers that the glass sits on is missing, and that is the extent of the condition issues. We'd rate this piece a 95%. All original piece. This is one of 16 Ed Wormley/Dunbar pieces we are listing from a single Chicago North Shore estate. Please see our other offerings/listings. Please note that all of the Dunbar pieces we are selling from this estate are all original, no refinishing work, and each piece has been thoroughly examined under bright light and with a magnifier. Measurements: 23" tall and the circular base is 24" in diameter. Shipping is FREE in the Continental USA. Please allow 14 to 21 days for delivery. The item will be hand delivered directly to your residence or business. Please email for an international shipping quote. Email us your questions, and check out our fully stocked Ebay Store! As the longtime director of design for the Dunbar furniture company, Edward Wormley was, along with such peers as George Nelson at Herman Miller Inc., and Florence Knoll of Knoll Inc., one of the leading forces in bringing modern design into American homes in the mid 20th century. Not an axiomatic modernist, Wormley deeply appreciated traditional design, and consequently his work has an understated warmth and a timeless quality that sets it apart from other furnishings of the era. Wormley was born in rural Illinois and as a teenager took correspondence courses from the New York School of Interior Design. He later attended the Art Institute of Chicago but ran out of money for tuition before he could graduate. Marshall Field hired Wormley in 1930 to design a line of reproduction 18th-century English furniture; the following year he was hired by the Indiana-based Dunbar, where he quickly distinguished himself. It was a good match. Dunbar was an unusual firm: it did not use automated production systems; its pieces were mostly hand-constructed. For his part, Wormley did not use metal as a major component of furniture; he liked craft elements such as caned seatbacks, tambour drawers, or the woven-wood cabinet fronts seen on his Model 5666 sideboard of 1956. He designed two lines for Dunbar each year one traditional, one modern until 1944, by which time the contemporary pieces had become the clear best sellers. Many of Wormleys signature pieces are modern interpretations of traditional forms. His 1946 Riemerschmid Chair an example is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art recapitulates a late 19th-century German design. The long, slender finials of his Model 5580 dining chairs are based on those of Louis XVI chairs; his Listen-to-Me Chaise (1948) has a gentle Rococo curve; the Precedent line that Wormley designed for Drexel Furniture in 1947 is a simplified, pared-down take on muscular Georgian furniture. But he could invent new forms, as his Magazine Table of 1953, with its bent wood pockets, and his tiered Magazine Tree (1947), both show. And Wormley kept his eye on design currents, creating a series of tables with tops that incorporate tiles and roundels by the great modern ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Natzler. As the items on these pages demonstrate, Edward Wormley conceived of a subdued sort of modernism, designing furniture that fits into any decorating scheme and does not shout for attention. Please contact us if you have any questions at all. We are here to help you with your purchase decisions. Please view the total listing as there are more pictures at the bottom of the listing. Shipping Cost, if quoted in the listing, is an estimate and is based upon us using the least expensive way of shipping to you if your address is a street address in the Continental United States Only (48 States), all others (i.e. foreign country, Alaska and Hawaii residents), please contact us prior to purchase for a shipping quote. Thank you. 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Price: 3995 USD

Location: Aurora, Illinois

End Time: 2023-12-27T17:28:04.000Z

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