Presentation furniture, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, former Governor of Queensland and Lady Wilson
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State Library of Queensland Follow Chairs designed and built by Ed Rosenstengel Brisbane 1946. Rosenstengel Brisbane 1946
Presented to the John Oxley Library by Ed Rosenstengel's daughter, artist Paula Rosenstengel.
Queensland maple, silky oak and glass
116 x 103 x 50cm. Purchased 2012 with funds from Miss Valmai Pidgeon through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland maple (Flindersia brayleyana) with shaped drawer-fronts, metal wreath handles, Wedgwood plaque, and 'cats-eyes' to carved pull handles. Finely carved with reeded frieze and bound fasces to corners and black shaped vitrolite glass top. Original finish