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Floor Lamp
This is a floor lamp. It was manufactured by Marius-Ernest Sabino. It is dated ca. 1930 and we acquired it in 1971. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, a socially active decorator whose husband was a prominent musician, created a new design for Austro-Hungarian-born Elizabeth Arden’s "Salon de Beauté". She used standing lamps with feathery molded glass shades by the Italian-born French designer Marius-Ernest Sabino, whose lamps also decorated the Ile de France ocean liner.
It is credited Gift of Elizabeth Arden.
Its dimensions are
H x W (with glass leaves): 176.1 x 33 cm (5 ft. 9 5/16 in. x 13 in.) H x W (without glass leaves): 168.2 x 33 cm (5 ft. 6 1/4 in. x 13 in.)
It is signed
Sabino, Paris. Depose 4590
Cite this object as
Floor Lamp; Manufactured by Marius-Ernest Sabino; H x W (with glass leaves): 176.1 x 33 cm (5 ft. 9 5/16 in. x 13 in.) H x W (without glass leaves): 168.2 x 33 cm (5 ft. 6 1/4 in. x 13 in.); Gift of Elizabeth Arden; 1971-25-3-a/e
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.