Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Never knew Mats Theselius designed an official state armchair for the Russian Federation.
Different types of embroidery on velvet. The russian state weapon, the double eagle. Silver ornaments hand chased by silversmith Sebastian Schildt and covered by gold. Carved armrests by woodcarver Carsten Nilsson made of pear wood.
Mats Theselius unique custom-made armchair for the state of Russia.
Designed & Produced by Mats Theselius 2002
Japan based, Italian architect/designer Elena Galli Giallini was so kind to submit her Ginza Chair to be featured here. With Pleasure! She designed it for the Yagi Collection.
The aim was to design a comfortable no frills reading chair that was nonetheless sleek looking. The armchair is named after the famous GINZA ward in Tokyo, where Japanese traditional craft shops and contemporary global brands are integrated in a unique way, displaying an unmatched capability to fuse together tradition and present day life and style.
The armchair is proposed in natural leather with bold colors (white, bordeaux, black) paired with different colors and finishing of the steel structure (bright chrome, matt
chrome, black matt epoxy varnish).
It started as a question on our FB page. I run the photo through Google Image Search and found Taylor Llorente Furniture and on the basis of the photo there a further search unveiled the Indexhibit based site of Swiss designer Philippe Bestenheider who designed the Lui collection for Fratelli Boffi in 2009.
Lot No. 179
Description
A rare armchair, Model No. 6541, Gebrüder Thonet,Vienna/Bystritz, 1903/4, bent and stained beech, the upholstery replaced, with stamped Thonet factory mark,
height 113 cm, width 71 cm, depth 84 cm, height of seat 44 cm.(DR) Provenance: from a villa in Prague.
Lit.: Thonet factory catalogue, 1904 – Thonet factory catalogue, 1911–1915, Vienna 1994, p. 113, no. 6541 – G. Renzi, Il mobile moderno, Milan 2008, p. 118, on Model Nos. 6541 and 6542.
“These armchairs are a rare case in which Gebrüder Thonet managed to be a step ahead of its competitor, Kohn, in the early years of the century. In May 1904, in the company magazine “Thonet Zentral Anzeiger”, two armchairs “with ears” were initially presented with catalogue numbers 1051 and 1052, later changed to 6541 and 6542. The two armchairs were manufactured in Bystritz and were placed on the market one year before Kohn’s 666 Model.” (G. Renzi)
Estimate EUR 2.000,- to 2.500,- (USD 2.850,- to 3.550,-)
Price Realized: EUR 5.625,- on November 22, 2011.
Via Dorotheum.
Unexpectedly I was in Vienna a couple of days where I could take some chair photos. A couple in the Dorotheum where an auction of modern Austrian design was held at Leap Day….until I was forbidden to take photos by a attendant and I didn’t want to go through the hassle of obtaining a press permit.
Armchair by Heinz Frank. Heinz must love horses;-)
Austria, 1972/73, nickel plated tubular steel, red leather, red lacquered iron plate, coil springs, height 77 cm, width 70.5 cm, depth 70 cm, height of seat 35 cm. (DR) A unique piece. Provenance: acquired from the artist in the 1970s – private property Vienna.
Estimated at EUR 6.000,- to 7.000,- (USD 8.500,- to 9.900,-) subject to artist surcharge. The chair was not sold.
Via Dorotheum.