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T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Triangular Coffee Table, Mid-Century Modern

Name: T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Triangular Coffee Table, Mid-Century Modern
Brand: T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Rating: 5 (64 reviews)

$2,250

£1,713.07

€2,437.46VAT Included

CA$3,207.61

A$3,265.05

CHF 1,890.72

MX$43,115.48

NOK 21,133.51

SEK 22,551.13

DKK 15,370.53

About the Item

Triangular table by Gibbings for Widdicomb, 1950s, USA in original vintage condition. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings was a furniture designer who became famous for his modernist designs in the mid-20th century. Born in the UK in 1905, he moved to New York City in the early 1930s and started working as a freelance furniture designer. In 1936, Robsjohn-Gibbings founded his own furniture company, which quickly gained a reputation for producing high-quality, modernist designs. His furniture was characterized by clean lines, minimal ornamentation, and the use of exotic materials such as bamboo, rattan, and bronze. Robsjohn-Gibbings became one of the leading furniture designers of his time, and his work was highly sought after by wealthy clients and celebrities. He also designed furniture for prominent public spaces, such as the United Nations headquarters in New York City. T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings died on April 10, 1976, in Athens, Greece, where he had been living for many years. Today, his furniture designs are highly collectible and are considered to be important examples of Mid-century modern design.

Creator:
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 18.12 in (46 cm)Width: 32.29 in (82 cm)Depth: 32.29 in (82 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Wood
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950s
Condition:
Seller Location:
Berlin, DE
Reference Number:
Seller: Tc.ob.GibbingsTriangle.v.1502a1stDibs: LU159123564612

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T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

British-born designer, interior decorator and author T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings was one of the great American tastemakers in the middle decades of the 20th century. Much like Edward Wormley, Robsjohn-Gibbings was a design classicist by education and inclination, but he would come to create some of the most gracious and livable modern furnishings of the era.

Robsjohn-Gibbings studied architecture at the University of London, then held various jobs that included designing décors for passenger liners and working as the art director of a film studio. In the early 1930s, while employed by the upper-crust interior designer Charles J. Duveen, Robsjohn-Gibbings experienced an epiphany during a visit to the British Museum.

Examining the furniture depicted on ancient Greek ceramics — lithe stools and klismos chairs — he realized that he had found a design touchstone. By 1936, Robsjohn-Gibbings had moved to New York and set up a showroom on Madison Avenue for his modern reinterpretations of Classical Greek designs. Aided by contacts he’d developed while working with Duveen, he quickly established a clientele that included Elizabeth Arden, Doris Duke and Thelma Chrysler Foy.

Through his writings for magazines and books, Robsjohn-Gibbings earned a public following and was established as an urbane arbiter of taste. From 1943 to 1956, he produced an understated line of modernist furnishings for Widdicomb, which included one of the icons of the period: the tiered, biomorphic Mesa coffee table (1951). Robsjohn-Gibbings moved to Athens, Greece, in 1966, and created a new line of antiquity-inspired pieces for the firm Saridis. The series turned out to be his swan song.

Collectors’ interest in Robsjohn-Gibbings was reignited in the 1980s when the 200-plus pieces from his 1936–38 commission for the Bel-Air estate of Los Angeles socialite Hilda Boldt Weber — pared-down neoclassical pieces rendered in blond wood (with the occasional flourish) — came on the market. (Up until then, the collection had remained in the house, despite its having changed hands several times.)

But his work for Widdicomb remains his most widely known, appreciated for its elegance and generous proportions. Robsjohn-Gibbings despised the stern aesthetic associated with his Bauhaus contemporaries, and a keynote of his modernist pieces is that they have no sharp angles. His chair and sofa frames, table legs and even many cabinets feature softly contoured edges. In whatever style he designed, Robsjohn-Gibbings was guided by simplicity and timelessness. He wanted his furniture to be lived with happily.

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