RARE !!! Hugh Newell Jacobsen pair of chaise lounges and side tables - Modernist

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We are delighted to be offering for sale this wonderful matching pair of Hugh Newell Jacobsen “Dominican” aluminum chaise lounges along with matching drinks tables. These chaise lounges are illustrated in his “ the Jacobsen Collection “ catalog on pages 36/37.
** These chaise lounges are located and will be shipped from Gaithersburg amd, right outside of Washington DC **
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Jacobsen was widely known for his modern pavilion-based residences—composed of simple, gabled forms, rectangular in plan. Unlike other second-generation Modernist architects who revisited the iconic European houses of the 1920s or the American shingle style of the nineteenth century, Jacobsen drew inspiration from the
vernacular architecture
of the American homestead. His large but intimately scaled pavilions recall the barns, detached kitchens, and smokehouses—the outbuildings—of rural America.
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Jacobsen designed
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
' home in
Martha's Vineyard
,
[8]
which was completed in 1981.
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There was initially public outcry over concerns that his modern design would contrast jarringly with the adjacent historic cottages. However, the design was ultimately subtle, more akin to "
New England saltbox
than
brutalist
concrete fantasy".
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He was also commissioned by
Meryl Streep
,
James Garner
, and
Rachel Lambert Mellon
, among others.
[2]
Other well known works of Jacobsen include his addition under the West Terrace of the
United States Capitol
, as well as the restoration of the
Renwick Gallery
and
Arts and Industries Building
, all in Washington, D.C. He also refurbished the Hôtel de Talleyrand section of the
U.S. Embassy in Paris
and
Spaso House
in Moscow. He designed structures for universities such as
Georgetown University
, the University of Maryland (his alma mater),
University of Michigan
, and
University of Oklahoma
.
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Jacobsen was elected into the
National Academy of Design
in 1988, first as an Associate member, before becoming a full Academician four years later.
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He was one of a small number of architects chosen in 1998 to participate in designed the Dream House series.
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This was promotion by
Life
magazine where famed architects designed homes, and plans were made publicly available.
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He ended up selling over 900,000 plans, and the houses built from them were constructed in countries such as Argentina, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
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