Why hasn't someone seized the licensing rights for Greta Grossman's stuff? In particular, the Grasshopper lamp, a nice, prosaic design. This could be remade with super cheap yet superior parts, tubular steel legs, dome shade, a pivot (steel pivot, rather than that bronze-colored metal pivot it used) and you're done.
One sold at auction tonight for about 7000 including closing costs. Talk about the relativity of the dollar, and the power of suggestion.
The "Anywhere Lamp" was...
The "Anywhere Lamp" was actually designed by another Greta... -Greta Von Nessen. Still a very nice lamp...
Coincidentally both Greta's had Swedish roots I think.
I have actually seen a reproduction of the Anywhere Lamp recently. I will try and see if I can find the link for you Barry. I think it was around $150 or so...
yes, that's exactly the link...
yes, that's exactly the link I was looking for...
That reproduction is not too bad I think, -and not over the top expensive either.
I wouldn't say that Grossman's work was more conservative than Womley's.
It is true that some of her later stuff for Glenn of California wasn't as ground breaking as the earlier stuff she did for them. The wrought Iron and walnut tables, desks and drawers are really quite unique stuff and the lamps she did for Ralph O Smith is more than up to standards with her contemporary european collegues (think Stilnovo, Moullie, Guariche etc etc). Her early work from the years running a interior design firm in Sweden 1933-39 is still quite obscure, but what I have seen of it has been amazing stuff.
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