Ross Bellah Prototype Floor Lamp

Prototype folding chair of tubular metal with plastic ball caps and its original yellow mesh fabric sling dating to the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. By architect and designer Henry Glass, an Austrian emigre who worked with Gilbert Rohde in New York City in the late 1930’s and then studied in Chicago with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Glass was ahead of his time in his concerns with pre-fabrication, modularity, affordability, and ecological responsibility. He was known for his knock-down furniture designs–chairs and tables that folded, nested, or stacked for easy mobility and space-saving flexibility. Austere and visually interesting, these designs utilized inexpensive materials such as plywood, masonite, tubular steel, and canvas. The present piece, never produced, channels Gerrit Rietveld in proposing a low-cost mid-century outdoor chair...

Chaise of tubular steel with plastic end caps and its original mesh sling. By Austrian/American designer Henry Glass, 1960’s. Prototype from his Sling-Line series of mobile and space...

Prototype stacking chair hand-built of an aluminum sheet and tubular aluminum by furniture designer and artist Richard Schultz as a full-size 3-D model exploring the ergonomic and sc...

Accordion brochure for Hansen Lamps listing locations in New York and Dallas. Presents work by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings, Stewart Ross James, Jane Kidder, and Clark Voorhees. Published ...

American Modern Prototype Floor Lamp, Frank Ghery, 1960s

Floris Fiedeldij Unique Prototype Floor Lamp for Artimeta, The Netherlands. This is a hand made prototype floor lamp from Floris Fiedeldij's own living room. We bought it a long t...

Verdigris floor lamp by Stewart Ross James for Hansen with ebonized wood base. Measures: 66.5" overall H, 58" H to the socket.

A rare brass and chrome floor lamp designed by Stewart Ross James for Hansen Lamps / New York. The floor lamp is all original and has the rare three way collar switch which is no lon...