T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Pair of 'Klismos' chairs, model no. 3, designed 1935, produced 1960s
Greek walnut, leather webbing.
Each: 90 x 53.5 x 72 cm
Manufactured by Saridis, Athens, Greece. Underside of each impressed 16070 and ΣAPΙΔHΣ. One with brass label DESIGNED BY T.H. GIBBINGS/MANUFACTURED BY SARIDIS OF ATHENS.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Century Design Ltd.
Private collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
Rosamund Frost, 'Un Artiste Moderne de Formation Classique: Robsjohn-Gibbons,' Art et Industrie, Paris, October 1946, pp. 44, 46
Saridis of Athens, A Collection of Furniture of Classical Greece Recreated by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings, exh. cat., Athens, 1961, n.p.
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Carlton W. Pullin, Furniture of Classical Greece, New York, 1963, p. 48
Martin Battersby, The Decorative Thirties, London, 1971, p. 171
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