Robsjohn Gibbings For Widdicomb
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Mahogany
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Benches
Velvet, Walnut
Vintage 1950s End Tables
Walnut, Birch
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Raffia, Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1960s American Buffets
Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Mahogany
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Brass
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Wood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s Sofas
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Silver
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Mahogany, Maple
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s American Dining Room Chairs
Mahogany
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Wood
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Teak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Velvet, Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Mahogany
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s Lounge Chairs
Fabric
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Maple
Vintage 1950s Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Slipper Chairs
Brass
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s American Modern Dressers
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Velvet, Walnut
Vintage 1940s American Hollywood Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Cane, Mahogany, Upholstery
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Brass
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Wood
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Mahogany
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Robsjohn Gibbings Biography and Important Works
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.