Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition held at 41/Liz O’Brien Gallery from November 7-December 12, 1996. 8vo (9 × 8 inches), pictorial wrappers, 48 pages, illustrated throughout in black-and-white.
An early monographic publication devoted to the furniture and decorative work of Samuel A. Marx (1885–1964), the Chicago-based architect, furniture and interior designer whose distinctive modernism combined sculptural forms, refined proportions, and luxurious materials. Issued eleven years before Liz O'Brien's comprehensive 2007 monograph, Ultramodern: Samuel Marx, Architect, Designer, Art Collector, this catalogue represents an important early contribution to the rediscovery and reassessment of Marx's work. Illustrated with examples of his furniture, lighting, and decorative objects, it remains a useful reference for collectors and scholars of American modernist design. Cited in the Art Institute of Chicago's Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917–65. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities; contents near fine.
Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition held at 41/Liz O’Brien Gallery from November 7-December 12, 1996. 8vo (9 × 8 inches), pictorial wrappers, 48 pages, illustrated throughout in black-and-white.
An early monographic publication devoted to the furniture and decorative work of Samuel A. Marx (1885–1964), the Chicago-based architect, furniture and interior designer whose distinctive modernism combined sculptural forms, refined proportions, and luxurious materials. Issued eleven years before Liz O'Brien's comprehensive 2007 monograph, Ultramodern: Samuel Marx, Architect, Designer, Art Collector, this catalogue represents an important early contribution to the rediscovery and reassessment of Marx's work. Illustrated with examples of his furniture, lighting, and decorative objects, it remains a useful reference for collectors and scholars of American modernist design. Cited in the Art Institute of Chicago's Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917–65. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities; contents near fine.
