1930's 'Frinton Park' Folding Plywood Dining Table
by Gerald Summers
£18,000
By 'Makers of Simple Furniture' for Frinton Park Estate Show Home
Polished Birch plywood folding table, of simple modernist utility and aesthetic
England, circa 1935
Provenance:
Private Collection, London
Product Description
By 'Makers of Simple Furniture' for Frinton Park Estate Show Home
Polished Birch plywood folding table, of simple modernist utility and aesthetic
England, circa 1935
Provenance:
Private Collection, London
The folding dining table was made for the Show Home at the Frinton Park Estate which was designed by the Architect Oliver Hill, a Modernist self-contained seaside development of 200 acres. Each site was planned to give un-interrupted views to the sea. The Show Home had wide curved windows on both the ground and upper floors, with sweeping views over the water, the architecture aligning with the table's curves and rounded form.
This table, along with other Summers' designs at the Frinton Park Estate Show Home, feature in the "Home of the Month" article - October 1935 issue of The English Home. The last two images show the Show Home in its previous dilapidated condition and a recent renovation, both images emphasising the full extent of curves and circles throughout the property.
Literature:
The Design History Journal 1992 Vol.5 No.3 - precis of Masters' thesis by Martha Deese, Metropolitan Museum New York; Design for Today, 1934; Furnishing the small Home published London and New York 1930's by the Studio Ltd.; Ostergard, Derek E. (ed.), Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946 University of Washington Press.
Exhibited:
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Thirties British Art and Design before the War, 1979; Crafts Council Gallery, London, Constructivism in Art & Design, 1988;Victoria & Albert Museum: Summers work is now included in the new 20th Century Furniture Galleries which opened at the V & A in November, 2012; Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Magic of Plywood, 2014. Another example of this table is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Polished Birch plywood folding table, of simple modernist utility and aesthetic
England, circa 1935
Provenance:
Private Collection, London
The folding dining table was made for the Show Home at the Frinton Park Estate which was designed by the Architect Oliver Hill, a Modernist self-contained seaside development of 200 acres. Each site was planned to give un-interrupted views to the sea. The Show Home had wide curved windows on both the ground and upper floors, with sweeping views over the water, the architecture aligning with the table's curves and rounded form.
This table, along with other Summers' designs at the Frinton Park Estate Show Home, feature in the "Home of the Month" article - October 1935 issue of The English Home. The last two images show the Show Home in its previous dilapidated condition and a recent renovation, both images emphasising the full extent of curves and circles throughout the property.
Literature:
The Design History Journal 1992 Vol.5 No.3 - precis of Masters' thesis by Martha Deese, Metropolitan Museum New York; Design for Today, 1934; Furnishing the small Home published London and New York 1930's by the Studio Ltd.; Ostergard, Derek E. (ed.), Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946 University of Washington Press.
Exhibited:
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Thirties British Art and Design before the War, 1979; Crafts Council Gallery, London, Constructivism in Art & Design, 1988;Victoria & Albert Museum: Summers work is now included in the new 20th Century Furniture Galleries which opened at the V & A in November, 2012; Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Magic of Plywood, 2014. Another example of this table is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Code:
10628
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H 72cm x Dia. 110cm
H 28.36" x Dia. 43.32"
H 28.36" x Dia. 43.32"
