Designer: Richard Meier (born 1934)

Item: Large Ana Picture Frame

Manufactured by: Cleto Munari for Swid Powell

Country of origin: Italy

Year made: Circa 1987

Materials: Silverplate over brass

Dimensions: 8 ½” x 6 ¼” 1 ¾” picture opening is 5” x 3 ¼”

Condition: Very good.

Description: This is one of the harder to find picture frame designs by Meier for Swid Powell. It is large, heavy, well constructed and quite functional. It houses photographs that are 5” x 3”. Meier’s drawings or images of this frame are not found on the his website, nor in the Tapert book, but we have acquired a 1988 Swid Powell catalog that has this reproduced in the marketing insert and cites the name as the Ana Large frame. The other three other Ana frames, with the Medium Ana also very difficult to find. We have only seen a few of these Large frames over the past few years.