The Harp Lounge » clement meadmore http://www.harplounge.com Vintage all the way to retro Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:25:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Clement Meadmore furniture http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/clement-meadmore-furniture/ http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/clement-meadmore-furniture/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:25:23 +0000 Harpy http://www.harplounge.com/?p=41 I went searching for lamps like the one in the advertisement in the previous post, and found this:

1955 lamp

in an online catalogue from Shapiro Auctioneers. The description suggests it’s likely to have been designed by Clement Meadmore, a famous Australian-American sculptor, who was designing furniture in the early 1950s. You may have seen his sculpture at the National Gallery:

Clement Meadmore sculpturehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pvk/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

He originally studied industrial design (with a strong interest in aeronautical engineering) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and you can see that industrial-atomic-spaceage look throughout his designs:

Clement Meadmore chairsClement Meadmore telephone tableClement Meadmore chair

Clement Meadmore chairs

These chairs were made in 1950, and sold for about $5000 in 2008.

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