A fun one to find, embodying a whole semester's worth of work by a young Marianne Prichard it seems, and covering nothing less than the history of furniture, from ancient Greek to mid-century modern! Housed in ribbon tied hardboard portfolio are 32 pages of black marker drawings on a on a good weight tracing type paper, depicting chairs and benches and beds and tables, windows and panels and columns and candlesticks, and all manner of decorative motifs, ancient Egyptian to Renaissance Italian (and French, and Spanish) to Regency to Colonial American to Art Deco to Eames and Bertoia, and everything in between. Pretty useful as a quick reference guide, actually, but there are at least a handful in here I'd be inclined to pop in frames and hang on the wall--I'm especially partial to the page of Windsor chairs, and the De Stilj chair given its own page, too. I just can't not rescue things like this.
Folio: 13" x 9 3/4". Pages of drawings 12" x 9", 32 pages of drawings total, black ink/marker on a good, sturdy weight tracing type paper. All in very good condition, c. 1950s-60s I believe. Photos (always excessive I know!) are representative, but not entirely comprehensive.
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