Warren McArthur was an American industrial and furniture designer who specialized in aluminum tubular furniture during the 1930s.
17 Facts About Warren McArthur
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In 1892, Wright designed the house for the Warren McArthur family, located in Chicago.
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In January 1912, Warren McArthur announced his engagement to his future wife Lorraine Peaslee of Dubuque, Iowa.
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Shortly after graduating from Cornell, in 1912, Warren McArthur received a patent for the short-globe lamp, which he sold to the Dietz Lantern Company for $2,000.00.
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On January 4,1926, Warren McArthur filed a patent for the RV design, called Touring and Camping Road Vehicle, and the patent was granted on March 10,1931.
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Warren McArthur was commissioned to make aluminum furniture for Rudolph Schindler's design for Sardi's restaurant location in Los Angeles.
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Warren McArthur set up a sales office and showroom in New York City at 1 Park Avenue in 1933.
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In 1934, Warren McArthur's furniture was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Exhibition of Contemporary American Industrial Art.
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In 1941, Warren McArthur designed furniture for the SS Milwaukee Clipper, which still contains the original Warren McArthur furniture.
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Warren McArthur's furniture was made in limited production because of the painstaking construction and expensive materials used.
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Warren McArthur patented a technique to provide rigidity and strength to his aluminum tubular furniture, aluminum being a weak metal.
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Warren McArthur had supporting steel rods placed inside the hollow aluminum tubes of his furniture.
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Warren McArthur produced the majority of aircraft seating for military planes during the war.
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Warren McArthur made an important technological innovation by making the airplane seats out of magnesium alloy tubing that was lightweight and strong and that saved other precious war-needed materials.
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In 1948, Warren McArthur founded Mayfair Industries in Yonkers, New York and made institutional furniture, including a popular folding chair design, until he retired in 1961.
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Largely forgotten by the 1970s, Warren McArthur's furniture was rediscovered in the 1990s.
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Warren McArthur furniture is highly sought by collectors and included in numerous museum collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.