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An Antonin Raymond desk, Antonin Raymond (1888-1976) is…
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An Antonin Raymond desk, Antonin Raymond (1888-1976) is recognised as one of the fathers of modern architecture in Japan, Czech born Raymond worked under Cass Gilbert and Frank Lloyd Wright before setting up his own studio in 1922 with his wife and creative partner Noemi Pernessin. Taking influences from Wright and Le Corbusier his design aesthetic combined functionalist modernism with Japanese craft, later working with important furniture designer George Nakashima. This piece was commissioned in 1940s along with a summer home in Karuizawa, Nagano Japan which Raymond designed and built. The client then gifted the desk to the owner Dorothy Beavan of Hastings who was a teaching missionary in Japan for over 25 years from the 1970s, height 73 cm, length 246 cm, depth 81.5 cm
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Furniture - Post 1950: European