- Designed by
- Olga Lee
United States, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1924-2014 - Title
- Lamp
- Date Made
- circa 1952, manufactured circa 1952-1954
- Medium
- Aluminum, iron
- Dimensions
- 27 1/2 x 10 x 12 in. (69.85 x 25.4 x 30.48 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2007.186
- Collecting Area
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Curatorial Notes
From her Los Angeles studio, Olga Lee designed modern furniture, textiles, lighting, and interiors. This lamp’s wasp-waisted shade, boomerang-shaped base, and anthropomorphic silhouette are typical of new design in the 1950s. The lamp is flexible and versatile too—it has a dual shade that shines light downward for reading and upward to illuminate a room.
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
- Tigerman, Bobbye, and Monica Obniski. Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2020.
- Hall, Jane. Woman Made: Great Women Designers. London: Phaidon Press Limited; New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 2021.
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
