Lot 382: BERNARD MAYBECK

ca. 1902

with paper label on underside inscribed TABLE/2415 Roosevelt Ave./Mr. and Mrs. John Javorsky/House built 1910/found in Basement by Javorsky/in 1949.

redwood

30 1/4 x 77 3/4 x 35 3/4 in. (76.8 x 197.5 x 90.8 cm)

Kenneth H. Cardwell, Bernard Maybeck: Artisan, Architect, Artist, Salt Lake City, 1977, p. 75 (for the exterior sleeping porch of the Boke house)
Sally B. Woodbridge, Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect, New York, 1992, p. 46 (for the front entrance of the Boke house)

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Boke, Berkeley, CA
Mr. and Mrs. John Javorsky, Berkeley, CA
Private collection, Oakland, CA, ca. 1975

The stylized cut-out apple motif ornamenting the table's supports was a signature device used by Maybeck throughout the architecture and interior furnishings of the Boke commission. The same cut-out motif is similarly employed in the front entrance and exterior sleeping porch of the house.