Sit you down, father; rest you. - King Lear / I Am The Walrus.
One of a set of eight side chairs; there were also two armchairs in a suite that included a large dining table and a sideboard with holly inlay. The octagonal, tapering leg is an homage to, or theft from, Emil-Jacques Ruhlmann, my favorite Art Deco designer. "Good artists copy; great artists steal" -Picasso. If larceny is the criterion, my stature is assured...
These chairs incorporate layers of flexible Italian plywood laid up over a mold in a vacuum press
One might see in the dressing room of Josephine Baker, the sensation of Paris in the 1930s
For over 30 years we have designed and built custom furniture for private clients, designers, and architects in sleekly contemporary, Art Deco, traditional Chinese Forms, Arts and Crafts in the manner of Greene and Greene.
Fine custom wood cabinets, desks and offices, tables, seating, dining rooms, sideboards, buffets, chairs, beds and dressers, built-ins, bookcases, doors, mantles, jewelry boxes, toys, accessories, lamps, clocks, wood sculpture.
Odell Furniture,
3001 Bayshore Road No. 10,
Benica,
CA 94510
Telephone: (707)888-77-88
Email: kent@odellfurniture.com
Website: www.odellfurniture.com
