Silas Seandel "Terra" Console Table

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...

Table lamp model 600P by renowned Italian lighting designer Gino Sarfatti, produced by Arteluce, circa 1966. An early example with the cut-o...

"Spore Table" by American artist James Bearden. A chic, Brutalist design of blackened and polychromed steel with fused bronze. Can be used as a side table or stool, indoors or outdoo...

Rectangular cocktail table of cut laminated plywood with solid wood supports. A well-constructed circa 1940s design with an architectural bearing, likely a one-off commission. The top sits within two lateral struts, giving the appearance of bridge architecture. . A design in the manner of Nathan Lerner...

Drum-shaped lite table of molded fiberglass mounted on three solid birch legs, designed and produced circa 1950 by Asian/American architectural lighting designer Bill Lam. William M....

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...

Bronze wall mounted console by Silas Seandel, circa late 1960s. A striking sculptural console. Signed by the artist, left hand side, near t...

Stunning sculptural Silas Seandel attributed solid bronze brutalist demi-lune console table. This fabulous piece is hand wrought and torch cut in the brutalist style definitely made ...

A sculptural steel and bronze base that can function as a console, center table or dining table. Handcrafted in the studio of Silas Seandel in Chelsea, Manhattan. In the work of Sean...

A circular dining/center table from the "Terra" series by American artist Silas Seandel. The cast stone top has areas of pooled bronze that are inlaid into...

A cast bronze and marble console table designed and produced by Silas Seandel, USA, c. 1970s.  With artists signature to base. Replaced marble top.

A bronzed steel and marble console table designed and produced by Silas Seandel, USA, c. 1970s.  With artists signature to base. Replaced marble top.