![]() Other noteworthy furnishings in the room include a pair of Louis XVI fauteuil, once owned by President Thomas Jefferson and the famous, Denis-Louis Ancellet desk, upon which the Camp David Peace Accords were signed. The rocking chair offered the President temporary relief from the debilitating back pain he suffered as a result of injuries he sustained during his service in the United States Navy during World War II. In the Parish Hadley photograph, the table is shown next to the famous rocking chair, which became President Kennedy’s favorite chair. Numerous photographs of the Yellow Oval Room taken during the Kennedy administration, contain this beautiful tea table. A photograph of the table, in situ, in the Yellow Oval Room at the White House, is featured in the book, Parish Hadley Sixty Years of American Design, page 126. This beautiful table was installed by Sister Parish as part of the decoration in the First Family’s living room called the Yellow Oval Room. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy commissioned New York, society decorator, Sister Parish, of the famed Parish Hadley Firm to decorate the private rooms in the White House that would be used by the First Family as their residence. The Kennedy family moved from their Georgetown residence into the White House in early 1961. Senator Kennedy won the presidency in November of 1960. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy’s Georgetown townhouse when Senator Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the United States Senate. This magnificent table was among the furnishings that were used to decorate, then, Senator John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier KennedyĪ very fine and very rare, English Victorian, chinoiserie decorated, black lacquer and papier mâché, tea table, the removable rectangular tray decorated with five Chinese figures in golden polychrome colors on a black lacquered background, raised on a later rectangular conforming Japanned, chinoiserie and gilt decorated stand with four bracket-form legs. Quite possibly the most important tea table in American History Material: plastic, aluminum, metal and chrome. Given the age, this vintage lamp in good condition, normal usage by age. Metal base and bracket, "backbone" body movable in both rotation and bending, lamp holder body can be positioned and equipped with a power button.Ĭondition: Good working order, minor scratches to hood and some cracks (Please see pictures) Organic shape of the flexible arm is similar to a human spine.įirst designed for the Turin exhibition 1970. Table lamp is hooked on the tabletop as show on the image.ĭescription: Innovative clamp design, white flexible arm. Italian Serpente desk lamp with a flexible neck. The lamp is full flexible with swivel shade and clamp. Very rare table lamp, version with bracket, the flex lamp by Martinelli is a famous Italian design item from the late 1970s. Use with halogen light bulb 60 watts max.įlex lamp, Also known as Vertebra, Model 659 by by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli Luce. Postmodern design halogen desk lamp after Robert Sonneman for Kovacs. Matted black lizard skin paint finish, brass columns and chrome accents on a matte black base, thick oblong thick glass that give a fantastic lighting effect thanks to the halogen light source that is hidden by black metal mesh and a matte black casing.ĭimmer switch with knob to center of base. The design of these lights is clearly inspired by the famous ‘Pausania’ light by Sottsass (1983). This table light was made during the eighties and strongly suggests a temple building from an ancient European culture. Vintage Postmodern desk or bankers lamp in the style of Robert Sonneman for George Kovacs from the 1980s.īorn from the idea of Ettore Sottsass and his Memphis Group in the early eighties, the design gained a new concept and expression through new shapes, patterns and innovative use of materials, exploring the limits of lighting and furniture production.
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