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Title: Arts of Daily Living Exhibition: Dining room
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Hill, John deKoven, d. 1996, Architect
Forbes, Eleanor, Furniture Designer
Montgomery, Margaret, Artist
House Beautiful
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Dining room with one wall decorated with enamel butterflies. House Beautiful describes this room as "A Dining Room that Features Enamel".
Enamel butterflies are by Margaret Montgomery. Dining table and chairs designed by Eleanor Forbes and manufactured by the McGuire Company. The enamel plates on the table in (008) are by the San Francisco-based artist Jade Snow Wong. (Source: HEH curator Hal Nelson, May 2010)
On p. 171 in "Rooms for a Lively Life," House Beautiful 96, October 1954, 168–173.
Type: Image
Extent: Number of items: 8 ; Black-and-white negatives (5) ; Color transparencies (3 - Color shifted Includes three stereo views created by taping together two transparencies)
Identifier: photCL MLP 1821
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/14714
Language: English
Subject: Interior decoration--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Decorative arts--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Place: Pomona, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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