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Two-Tier Table

Gerald SummersWW-1934-144757
1934·Plywood and glass·16 3/16 × 29 in. (41.1 × 73.7 cm)

Gift of John Shand Kydd, 1995

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Year
1934
Dimensions
16 3/16 × 29 in. (41.1 × 73.7 cm)

Artist

Gerald Summers
Gerald Summers

Gerald Summers was a British designer and craftsman working primarily in bent plywood furniture during the mid-twentieth century. His approach to laminated wood construction anticipated industrial production methods while maintaining an emphasis on material integrity and sculptural form. Active from the 1930s onward, Summers developed a distinctive vocabulary of curved, organic forms that influenced modernist furniture design in Britain and beyond.

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Lounge Chair

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1934 · Bent birch plywood with pigmented lacquer

WW-1934-M003172

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Year
1934
Dimensions
16 3/16 × 29 in. (41.1 × 73.7 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1934-144757

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Source
met
Status
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Artist

Gerald Summers

Gerald Summers

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