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Museums

 

Klismos chiar is exhibited in the following museums:

Brooklyn Museum

 

Klismos Side Chair with Cushion

Designer: Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings

Manufacturer: Eleftherios Saridis

Medium: Walnut, leather, fabric

Place Manufactured: Athens, Greece

Dates: 1961

Collections:Decorative Arts

Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor

Cooper Hewitt,
Smithsonian Design Museum

 

Chair, "Klismos"

Walnut. Gift of Saridis S.A. Furniture Manufacturers. 1971-18-1.

After Thomas Hope

Manufactured by Saridis S.A. Furniture Manufactures

Designed by Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

"Klismos" Chair

Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings

American (born England), London 1905–1976 Athens

Robsjohn-Gibbings’s design derives from the ancient klismos chair, introduced in Greece during the fifth century.

Exhibition history: Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection, MMA, December 21, 2007 - April 5, 2009.

Dallas Museum of Art

 

Side Chair

Designer: T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (American, 1905 - 1976)

Manufacturer: Saridis of Athens (Greek, Born 1927)

Date: designed 1936; made c. 1962

Department: Decorative Arts and Design

Medium: Walnut and Leather

Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo E. Stewart

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