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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, LONDON
Lot 7TP

Ernest Race
'B3' armchair, 1945-1969

28 – 29 April 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £357 inc. premium

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Ernest Race

'B3' armchair, 1945-1969
Die-cast aluminium, plywood, vinyl upholstery.
68.4 x 60 x 48.5 cm
Manufactured by Ernest Race, Ltd., London, United Kingdom. Underside of frame impressed B3 REGD DESIGN No. 848 / 94.

Footnotes

Literature
Hazel Conway, Ernest Race, London, 1982, p. 30
Kathryn B. Hiesinger and George Marcus, Design Since 1945, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983, p. 133
Alan Peat et al., Austerity to Affluence: British Art & Design 1945-1962, exh. cat., Fine Art Society, London, 1997, p. 16

The present model won a gold metal at the X Milan Triennale, 1954 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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