Attributed Greta Magnussen Grossman 1952 Side Table for Glenn of California Mid-Century Modernism

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Extraordinarily rare piece by Greta Magnussen Grossman. From the "62 Series" (designed in 1952 and named for a style at … Read more Extraordinarily rare piece by Greta Magnussen Grossman. From the "62 Series" (designed in 1952 and named for a style at least 10 years ahead of its time) for Glenn of California, this stunning side table features a black laminate top level and walnut wood body. Iron legs are painted black and capped with spherical walnut feet.

Dimensions: 31.75” width x 18” depth x 20.5” height.

No identifying maker's marks observed. "6225" hand written in a type of pigment pencil (not ink) on underside of base panel.

Condition: Offered in its long-loved and lived-in condition with expected wear and discoloration from age and use. Professional restoration would only increase it's value.

From @places_journal (https://placesjournal.org/article/greta-magnusson-grossman-living-in-a-modern-way/)

"Greta Magnusson Grossman was a prolific designer working within the male-dominated world of mid-century modern design, whose status and influence has been largely ignored. Born in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 1906, she was a polymath — an industrial designer, interior designer, and architect whose work and career spanned from Scandinavia to North America. Indeed, her geographical origins can be seen as a touchstone for her migration, in her mid-thirties, from Stockholm to Los Angeles; certainly, her life and career would be framed around both her Swedish design sensibility and its translation into an alien context. Magnusson Grossman was born into a world on the cusp of immense disruption and change, and her willingness to embrace modernity in all its guises is evident in her life choices as well as in the objects and spaces that she designed"

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