
Jason Stein
Senior West Coast Director
US$20,000 - US$30,000
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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