| LAMA announces the most important selection of California design ever offered in one auction |
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions’ (LAMA) December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design Auction will present the most important selection of California Design to ever be offered at auction. Examples include prototypes and personally commissioned,unique works each with strong provenance and rarity. Highlights include exceptionally important examples from nearly every major movement of the 20th century: • 1907: Greene & Greene linen press: The most significant cabinet ever offered at auction • 1925: Armand-Albert Rateau dining chair: The lost and (previously thought destroyed) chair from the set now in the permanent collection of The Legion of Honor • 1932: T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings "Sans Epoch" tables: Commissioned for Hilda Weber's landmark "Casa Encantada" • 1945: Charles and Ray Eames: MoMA prototype chair produced prior to December 1945. The only such read full article
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