Pair of T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Ebonize Walnut Side Tables with Nickel Pulls
View Similar Items
Pair of T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Ebonize Walnut Side Tables with Nickel Pulls
About the Item
- Creator:T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1940's
- Condition:
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU78361057590
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
British-born designer, interior decorator and author T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905–76) 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, he had moved to New York and set up a showroom on Madison Avenue for his modern reinterpretations of classic 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 styled he designed, Robsjohn-Gibbings was guided by simplicity and timelessness. He wanted his furniture to be lived with happily.
- Pair Robsjohn Gibbings Side Tables with Raffia Cane-Wrapped PullsBy Widdicomb Furniture Co., T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsLocated in Brooklyn, NYIconic pair of T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings for Widdicomb end tables or nightstands. Single drawer with rattan-wrapped pulls, raised on long tapering brass legs. Widdicomb labels to inner ...Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
MaterialsWalnut
- Pair of T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Walnut Single Drawer Open Compartment SideBy Widdicomb Furniture Co., T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsLocated in New York, NYPAIR of American Mid-Century walnut end / side tables with an open compartment above a single lower drawer with a rounded walnut bar drawer pull with tapered brushed chrome caps at e...Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
MaterialsMetal, Chrome
- T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, "Colosseum" Side Table, Walnut, USA, 1950sBy Widdicomb Furniture Co., T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsLocated in High Point, NCA dark-stained walnut "Colosseum" side table, designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and produced by Widdicomb, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, 1950s.Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
MaterialsWalnut
- 3 T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Walnut Parsons Design End Side TablesBy Widdicomb Furniture Co., T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsLocated in New York, NY3 American mid-century square Parsons-style walnut end / side tables. (T.H. ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS FOR WIDDICOMB FURNITURE CO.)(PRICED EACH)Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
MaterialsWood, Walnut
- Pair of Robsjohn Gibbings for Widdicomb End or Side TablesBy T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsLocated in Chicago, ILA strong pair of Robsjohn Gibbings designed black end or side tables. These need to be refinished. "Original Black" finish is worn. Price is for the PAIR.Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
MaterialsWood
- Pair of Klismos Leg Side Tables by T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsBy T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsLocated in Atlanta, GAKlismos leg side tables, designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb, American, circa 1950s. ONLY ONE IS AVAILABLE.Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
MaterialsWalnut