(on 2) MID-CENTURY MODERN/DECO METAL DESK LAMP
Walter von Nessen (German/American, 1889-1943)
inscribed Nessen Studio (founded in Murray Hill, Manhattan, NYC in 1927)
swivel-arm form, original flared shade, 18"h (chrome surface pitted on lamp here and there); along with a 1940's LUCITE ALARM CLOCK, Telechron #7H141 (Ashland, Mass.), 5"h; 6.5"w (wire needs replacing)
The 1935 Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition of Contemporary American Industrial was a formal recognition of the field. The works of the first wave of industrial designers was exhibited including Walter von Nessen, Eliel Saarinen, Walter Teague, and William Lescaze. Von Nessen studied under Bruno Paul at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin and taught at the Charlottenburg Art School. After the war, he worked for architect Peter Behrens in Berlin and designed furniture in Stockholm from 1919 to 1923. Von Nessen immigrated to America in 1923 opening Nessen Studios, with his wife Margaretta, in NYC in 1927. He was almost exclusively devoted to the design and fabrication of architectural lighting.
Condition in text.
Estimate: $300 - $500
Realized: $150 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 246 : (on 2) MID-CENTURY MODERN/DECO METAL DESK LAMP
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