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From Home Furnishing Business
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Designs Now Available at Baker
June 20,
2018 by Jane Chero in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry 
Baker, an American manufacturer and designer of fine luxury home furnishings, is introducing a 20-piece collection of Edward Wormley’s most successful designs for furniture manufacturer Dunbar. The collection is now available for custom-design through Baker’s showrooms in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
The collection includes upholstery, casegoods and accessories.
Wormley, a leading designer of finely crafted modern residential furniture created limited edition and custom furniture for Dunbar for four decades, from 1931 until 1970. His designs from the mid-twentieth century updated traditional silhouettes with a modern sensibility that was both functional and elegant.
The materials palette for the Edward Wormley for Dunbar collection includes walnut, cherry and maple, and the primary metals are brass, aluminum and stainless steel.
“Dunbar’s goal is to provide designs that transcend a specific aesthetic or stylistic label and can be tailored by an architect or interior designer through the use of color, textiles, and choice of finishes. We also understand that our furniture will be part of a physical setting and must politely coexist with other pieces of furniture, architectural elements, lighting, and accessories without compromising its identity,” says Dunbar President Andrew Hiser.
Wormley and Dunbar were the perfect partnership. Working closely with Dunbar, Wormley designed reproductions of some of the best examples of European modernist and Art Deco furniture by Jean-Michel Frank in Paris and Richard Riemerschmid in Munich.
The designer had a photograph of a chair by Riemerschmid from 1899 that he had copied, using the image as reference. Wormley’s version of the Riemerschmid chair was not a replica, and yet the heirs of Riemerschmid were so satisfied with Wormley's version that they added it to their museum collection. The Riemerschmid chair is in the new re-editions at Baker.
“Edward Wormley and his timeless designs for Dunbar are synonymous with quality custom manufacturing and modern living. This remarkable designer is an icon waiting to be rediscovered and celebrated. Baker is honored to be presenting Edward Wormley’s original designs for Dunbar through our showrooms,” said Baker President Russell Towner.