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Edward Wormley for Dunbar Mid-Century Ebonized Trapezoidal Side or Drinks Table

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Details
- CreatorEdward Wormley (Designer),Dunbar Furniture (Manufacturer)
- DimensionsHeight: 19.63 in. (49.87 cm)Width: 19.32 in. (49.08 cm)Depth: 19 in. (48.26 cm)
- StyleMid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques
- Place of Origin
- Period
- Date of Manufacture1960s
- ConditionRefinished. Wear consistent with age and use. Freshly restored.
- Seller LocationSt. Louis, MO
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU820224072862
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- ShippingShips From: St. Louis, MO
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About the Designer
Edward Wormley
As the longtime director of design for the Dunbar furniture company, Edward Wormley was, along with such peers as George Nelson at Herman Miller Inc., and Florence Knoll of Knoll Inc., one of the leading forces in bringing modern design into American homes in the mid-20th century. Not an axiomatic modernist, Wormley deeply appreciated traditional design, and consequently his work has an understated warmth and a timeless quality that sets it apart from other furnishings of the era.
Wormley was born in rural Illinois and as a teenager took correspondence courses from the New York School of Interior Design. He later attended the Art Institute of Chicago but ran out of money for tuition before he could graduate. Marshall Field hired Wormley in 1930 to design a line of reproduction 18th-century English furniture; the following year he was hired by the Indiana-based Dunbar, where he quickly distinguished himself. It was a good match.
Dunbar was an unusual firm: it did not use automated production systems; its pieces were mostly hand-constructed. For his part, Wormley did not use metal as a major component of furniture; he liked craft elements such as caned seatbacks, tambour drawers, or the woven-wood cabinet fronts seen on his Model 5666 sideboard of 1956. He designed two lines for Dunbar each year — one traditional, one modern — until 1944, by which time the contemporary pieces had become the clear best sellers.
Many of Wormley’s signature pieces — chairs, sofas, tables and more — are modern interpretations of traditional forms. His 1946 Riemerschmid Chair — an example is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art — recapitulates a late 19th-century German design. The long, slender finials of his Model 5580 dining chairs are based on those of Louis XVI chairs; his Listen-to-Me Chaise (1948) has a gentle Rococo curve; the “Precedent” line that Wormley designed for Drexel Furniture in 1947 is a simplified, pared-down take on muscular Georgian furniture. But he could invent new forms, as his Magazine table of 1953, with its bent wood pockets, and his tiered Magazine Tree (1947), both show. And Wormley kept his eye on design currents, creating a series of tables with tops that incorporate tiles and roundels by the great modern ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Natzler.
As the vintage items on 1stDibs demonstrate, Edward Wormley conceived of a subdued sort of modernism, designing furniture that fits into any decorating scheme and does not shout for attention.
- Edward J. Wormley for Dunbar, 1940s Bookshelf End TableBy Edward Wormley, Dunbar FurnitureLocated in St. Louis, MOFrom the 1940s Dunbar Enduring Modern catalog is model # 2193, a single large end table with lower tier bookshelf by Edward J. Wormley. Rounded legs, has divider in center to hold bo...Category
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- Edward Wormley for Dunbar Large Square Coffee TableBy Edward Wormley, Dunbar FurnitureLocated in St. Louis, MOEdward Wormley for Dunbar large square coffee table or low side with parson legs. Price includes refinishing, custom color option available. No label, guaranteed Dunbar. See my oth...Category
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- 1940s Edward Wormley for Dunbar Occasional TableBy Edward WormleyLocated in St. Louis, MODark brown stain on mahogany two-tiered occasional table by Edwards Wormley for Dunbar, circa 1940s. Email for dimensions . Refinished 28.5” overall height, 19 7/8th “ dia, lower s...Category
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- Edward Wormley Side TableBy Edward WormleyLocated in St. Louis, MOEdward Wormley side table designed for the Precedent Collection angular legs, lower shelf, circa 1947. Only a single available.Category
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- Janus Side Table by Edward Wormley for Dunbar with Natzler TilesBy Edward WormleyLocated in St. Louis, MORare Janus side table with 25 inset tiles by Otto and Gertrud Natzler. Designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar. Base of walnut with brass edging on legs.Category
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MaterialsBrass
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