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Lot 2078

A Bernard Maybeck oak writing table
early 20th century

16 April 2012, 10:00 PDT
Los Angeles

US$20,000 - US$30,000

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A Bernard Maybeck oak writing table

early 20th century
height 30 1/2in (77cm); length 66in (167.5cm); depth 41 3/8in (105cm)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Patrick Lawson
Andrew and Isabel Lawson


Professor Andrew Lawson, the geologist who was the first person to discover and name the San Andreas fault, had purchased a tract of land called La Loma Park with the Maybecks and Farnum Griffith in 1900. Bernard Maybeck had already designed a house for him in 1896, and after the 1906 quake, they worked together to create a concrete house in this tract that would withstand earthquakes. Lawson House was completed in 1908.

The consignor was a longtime neighbor of the Lawsons and purchased the desk from Isabel's son, Patrick, after her death.

Literature:
Sally B. Woodbridge, Bernard Maybeck Visionary Architect, Abbeville Press, 1996 pp. 116-127 for a discussion of the house and the relationship of Andrew Lawson and Bernard Maybeck

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