There is a design auction at Phillips in NYC on December 13, 2016. Lot 110 is this Gio Ponti 489 armchair for Cassina. Estimated $15,000 – 20,000 for the two.
Update: Sold for $37,500
Category: armchair
Lady Lounge chairs by Marco Zanuso
Lady Lounge chairs by Marco Zanuso, manufactured by Arflex. Winner of the Gold Medal prize at the 1951 ‘IX Triennale’ in Milano. Newly upholstered with deep blue velvet upholstery.
Sold by 1stdibs dealer Decade in Milan where I found it.
Tubular Chair by René Herbst
Tubular Chair by René Herbst
René Herbst belonged to the French Modernists or Avant Garde in the Interbellum – the time between the two World Wars, WW I and WW II. This tubular chair is a steel one which deviates from his better known aluminum chairs.
Source: The Red List
S35 by Breuer for Thonet
This comfortable club chair was presented in 1930 at the Paris Grand Palais as a contribution by the Deutscher Werkbund. Together with Walter Gropius and Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer organized this premiere of contemporary German furniture production in France. With the S 35 he succeeded in integrating all of the functions of a tubular steel cantilever chair with the construction of a single uninterrupted line. The cantilever effect was thus doubled because the armrests, which flex independently from the seat, balance the swinging of the seat and backrest frame that projects towards the back. A matching footstool is available.
Frames chrome-plated tubular steel. Seat, backrest and footstool stretched with black full-grain butt leather or brown buffalo hide. Armrests in stained beech or oiled walnut.
Via Thonet
