.....And Design_15 at long last!
I followed the clues, and worked out what the answer should be, but I just couldn't find a picture of that piece of furniture to confirm it, until today, that is.
I even worked out that it should be on the same website as the Gropius arm chairs, and I must have looked at the picture over a dozen times in the past weeks, without spotting it. I suppose I was looking for a picture of the single piece, whereas it's part of a dining room suite. D'oh!
Here's the picture. Would you have spotted it straight away?
This streamlined dining set was designed for Bloomingdales in 1939 and installed at the House of Tomorrow Exhibit part of the Town of Tomorrow, which featured a variety of modern and futuristic concepts for design and living spaces at the World’s Fair in New York.
OK, back to the puzzle. It's designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky, who emigrated from Russia after the Bolshevik revolution, first to Switzerland, then Belgium and eventually to the US.
As for motor vehicles, he was involved in projects as diverse as the Cord L-29 Hayes Coupé and the American Austin, but is perhaps best remembered for the streamlined White Motor Company trucks commissioned by Labatt's Brewery in Canada.
