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FRANCES ELKINS (1887-1953)

Lot 5
12.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1436494
Lot 5 | FRANCES ELKINS (1887-1953)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
FRANCES ELKINS (1887-1953)
Pair of Tree-Form Floor Lamps, circa 1937
possibly produced by Peter Bylling for Myron Oliver Studio, Monterey, California
cerused oak, painted metal, mica shades
64 ½ in. (163.8 cm) high (overall), 19 ¼ in. (48.9 cm) diameter of shade (each)




Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. James D. Zellerbach, Pacific Heights, San Francisco, circa 1937, commissioned from Frances Elkins (Card Room)
Norah and Norman Stone, Pacific Heights, San Francisco, 1994
Acquired from the above by the present owner, Pacific Heights, San Francisco, 2022



Literature

J. Chatfield-Taylor, “An Elkins Revival: Classic Lines and Contemporary Art in San Francisco,” Architectural Digest, New York, special issue, vol. 53, no. 2, February 1996, pp. 144-151 (for a discussion of the interior)
S. M. Salny, Frances Elkins: Interior Design, New York, 2005, pp. 93 (for this model in the living porch of Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field's residence in Muttontown, New York), 118 (present lot illustrated), 108-123 (for a discussion of the commission), 141 (for this model in the loggia of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson's residence in Beverly Hills, California)
P.-E. Martin-Vivier, Jean-Michel Frank, l'étrange luxe du rien, Paris, 2006, p. 254 (for a discussion of the commission)
P. E. Meza, Inventing the California Look, New York, 2022, pp. 226-229 (for a discussion of the commission)
S. Powell, Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer, New York, 2023, back cover and pp. 5 (present lot illustrated), 174-179 (for a discussion of the commission)



Further details

A version of this model was used by Frances Elkins to decorate the porch of Evelyn Marshall Field's residence in Muttontown, New York in 1931. A painted version of the model also appears in the loggia of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson's residence in Beverly Hills, California in 1944.

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