September Great Estates Fall Curated Auction

Willow Auction House's September Great Estates auction features over 200 finely curated lots of decorative items, furniture, jewelry and artwork. This sale features a selection of mid-century and Danish modern furniture, including pieces by Jens Risom, Kip Stewart, Paul McCobb and Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller. Among the other lots on offer are a Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano, several shipbuilder's models, silver including Georg Jensen and a Wang Hing & Co. Chinese export box, two Rolex watches, a Franz Bergman cold painted bronze and a large selection of ethnographic and tribal items from the Labelle Prussin Estate, Author of African Nomadic Architecture., including jewelry, masks and statues. Rounding out the sale is a collection of artwork, with paintings from David Burliuk, Perle Fine and Kurt Trampedach, photographs by Bernice Abbott & Gordon Parks, a Norman Rockwell collotype, works from Pedro Friedeberg, Alexander Calder, Robert Indiana, and a mixed media cigar box from Mihail Chemiakin.

Charles (St. Louis 1907-1978) Ray (Sacramento 1912-1988) Eames. 6 First generation shell chairs for Herman Miller. 1950's. Mid Century Modern chairs designed in 1948 for the Museum of Modern Art’s “International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design". One chair completely detached from base, two other chairs only connected by one out of 4 "shocks". Wear throughout. Paper labels still attached. 25" x 31" x 22"