About Weinberg Modern
Larry Weinberg graduated from Amherst College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, with degrees in English and American Studies. After curatorial engagements at the Brooklyn Museum, Historical Deerfield and other institutions, he was awarded a fellowship by the distinguished Hagley Program in the History of Technology. In 1995, he co-founded Lin-Weinberg Gallery, which quickly became a destination for celebrities, designers and wide-ranging clients from tech companies to film studios. During its tenure in Soho, and later in Gramercy Park, the unique, intellectually ...Read More
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Bill Lam Molded Fiberglass Lite Table
By Bill Lam
Located in New York, NY
Drum-shaped lite table of molded iberglass mounted on three solid birch legs, designed and produced circa 1950 by Asian/American architectural lighting designer Bill Lam. William M.C...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Fiberglass, Birch
Pascoe Industries Double Chest of Drawers
By Clifford Pascoe
Located in New York, NY
Storage unit composed of two four-drawer (#9568) chests atop a single “LA” series base with laminated plywood legs. Designed by Clifford Pascoe for Pascoe Industries and produced cir...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
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Birch, Mahogany
Bill Lam Table Lamp with Tiltable Fiberglass Reflector
By Bill Lam
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp composed of an enameled steel tube with a tiltable Fiberglas reflector shade, designed and produced by Asian/American designer and educator Bill Lam in 1952. William M.C. (Bill) Lam (1924-2012), a pioneer in architectural lighting, was born and raised in Hawaii, entering MIT in 1941 and graduating with a degree in architecture in 1949 after serving as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in WWII. Influenced by Alvar Aalto and Charles Eames, both visiting professors at MIT, Lam established a small atelier, Lam Workshop, outside Boston in the late 1940’s, producing a series of his own lighting designs and a two-level cocktail table that gained widespread recognition in the national design press, earning MoMA Good Design selections in 1950 and 1951 as well as inclusion in close to 50 museum collections and exhibitions throughout the United States and distribution through Lightolier, Richards-Morgenthau (Raymor), Bloomingdale’s, Carroll Sagar, and numerous other showrooms and shops offering and promoting modern furnishings. His designs were merit specified for California Art & Architecture’s Case Study House program in 1950, featured in the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art’s Current Design quarterlies and in Furniture Forum, and chosen by General Electric and Westinghouse for model homes to demonstrate how to use light to best advantage. Lam would cease producing these designs in the later 1950’s, shifting his attention to the design and manufacture of prefabricated architectural lighting systems along with consulting, teaching, and writing—he taught lighting design at Harvard and MIT and authored two influential books for the lighting design profession.
His 1950 drum-shaped lite-table was one of the first consumer products made of fiberglass reinforced plastic—it was shown alongside the Eames/Evans plastic shell chair in period ads for the material. He designed a fiberglass clip-on light diffuser fixture around the same time; it appeared in the Winter 1951/52 issue of Current Design with a date of design of April 1951. With a 14” diameter, it was pitched as a ceiling fixture or sconce and was intended to be “almost unbreakable and absolutely washable.” This element was then included in two pivoting armature wall lamps—one a Good Design selection--and a gooseneck floor lamp. All these designs emphasized functionality, flexibility, and economy and emitted light with a soft intimate glow. The present design was clearly to be part of this series—a steel cylinder using the fiberglass fixture to diffuse and throw light. The lamp was included in a lighting survey in Interiors in June, 1952. The description—"a tiltable Fiberglas reflector on a steel tube in enameled white, black, red or gray”--suggests that the lamp was intended for serial production and indicates that the tilting mechanism was integral to the design (the tilting finial on the lamp shows a patent date of 1942). Tilting the fixture through a range of motion to change how light is thrown locates the lamp in dialogue with several winning entries in the MoMA 1951...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Steel
Mutual Sunset Lamp Company Table Lamp
By Mutual Sunset Lamp Co.
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp of aluminum and glazed twine wrapping with an original textile shade manufactured by the Mutual Sunset Lamp Company circa 1940’s. Stamped MSLC underneath along with 4729, ...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Aluminum
Noguchi 1931 50 51 52 Japan
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in New York, NY
First edition monograph chronicling Noguchi’s formative and incredibly productive trips to Japan in the years 1930, 1950, 1951, and 1952 where he began the Akari series of bamboo and Washi paper lights...
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Vintage 1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Tepper-Meyer Versi-Table
By Gene Tepper
Located in New York, NY
Up-and-down "Versitable" by Tepper-Meyer Associates of San Francisco, produced by Fred Meyer circa 1954. The two-position design can function as a dining or writing table in the high...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Steel
Muebles Austin Knock-Down Lounge Chair
By Clara Porset
Located in New York, NY
Knock-down lounge chair with arms in solid carved pine with a woven plasticized palm seat and back, in the manner of Clara Porset, produced by Muebles Austin...
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Vintage 1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
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Cord, Pine
Franco Albini Lounge Chair for Knoll, Model 49
By Knoll, Franco Albini
Located in New York, NY
Lounge chair, model 49, designed by Franco Albini and produced by Knoll from 1949 until about 1967. This example circa 1950’s. Slender walnut frame with distinctive wrap-around arms,...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
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Steel
The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 'Le Corbusier'
By Le Corbusier
Located in New York, NY
First American edition of Le Corbusier’s authoritative and influential tome on rationalist (read geometric) urban planning, wherein “the author has undertaken a close survey of the e...
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Vintage 1920s American International Style Books
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Paper
New Life for the Noble Tree: Masterworks by George Nakashima 'Sotheby's'
By Sotheby's, George Nakashima
Located in New York, NY
Catalog of a sale held at Sotheby’s, New York, on December 15, 2006, showcasing the Arthur and Evelyn Krosnick collection of George Nakashima furniture and lighting, or actually the second collection, as the first—112 pieces-- was completely destroyed by fire in 1989. George Nakashima essentially stopped what he was doing and focused on rebuilding the collection replacing the lost items with what he deemed better examples, owing to his own technical and artistic maturation, though many were completed under the guidance of his daughter, Mira, after George passed away in 1990. Highlights include an important “Arlyn” table, lot 313, that fetched $822,000 (a record for the artist) on a pre-sale estimate of $300,000-$500,000; a superb “Minguren II” table that brought $180,000; a magnificent “Arlyn II” coffee table that sold for $204,000; and a set of eight Conoid chairs that sold for $96,000. The catalog of the Krosnick sale remains a touchstone for collectors interested in the work of George Nakashima. 103 pages with 85 lots, mostly with full color illustrations, printed wrappers. Price results...
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Early 2000s American American Craftsman Books
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Paper
Jean Prouve, the Poetics of the Technical Object
By Jean Prouvé, Vitra
Located in New York, NY
First edition, stated, of this scholarly monograph/exhibition catalog on the architecture and design work of modernist French master Jean Prouve, evincing his unparalleled mastery of industrial technique and sculptural form. Comprised of a series of short essays addressing and contextualizing various aspects of Prouve’s architecture...
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Early 2000s German Mid-Century Modern Books
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Aluminum
Superstudio, Life Without Objects
By Superstudio
Located in New York, NY
First edition of this scholarly study of the influential Florentine avant-garde architectural collective Superstudio, a driving force in the Radical architecture and design movement ...
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Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Books
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Paper
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