Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Dutch furniture brand Artifort will present the Shark Chair by Dutch designer René Holten at Il Salone del Mobile 2011 in Milan.
René Holten’s (1961) first design for Artifort was the DoDo in 1997. This brings me to a new item, because various furniture brands seem to feature a Dodo Chair.
Artifort started 120 years ago as an upholstery company in Maastricht. Designers such as Kho Liang Ie, Pierre Paulin and Geoffrey Harcourt were instrumental in today’s success of Artifort.
Lounge Chair B306 by Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand
Estimate Euro 50,000 – 70,000 ($70,367 – $98,514)
Price Realized Euro 121,000 ($171,807)Sale 1000, Les Collections du Chateau de Gourdon, 29 – 31 March 2011, Paris, France
An adjustable ‘B306’ chaise longue, with chromed tubular steel frame and black-painted pressed and folded steel platform, by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, with woven-wool textile seat covering, produced by Thonet Frères, Paris, 1930.
Illustrating Le Corbusier’s conviction that furnishings should be ‘machines for living’, the chaise was one of several influential designs conceived 1928-1929 by Le Corbusier, his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand. The present example is an early version, dating to around early 1930 when the design was first retailed, as evidenced by the raised rear support legs which conform to the April 1929 patent drawings accepted by Thonet. Shortly after serial manufacture commenced, the rear legs were reduced in height to correspond to those at the front. An apparently identical example, also with raised rear legs and hand-woven textile covering, is in the collection of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany. An example of the revised design, with all legs of equal height, was presented by Charlotte Perriand at the UAM exhibition of July 1930.
via Christie’s.
Found this sofa by Rob Parry at Deconet and realized I have a lot to tell about Rob who is a family friend for over 70 years and, more importantly, note to self: I have to visit him within a short time, because this photo, which I took when we had dinner together, is already almost 4 years old.
Rob has an extensive portfolio of chair designs that have never been produced.
This sofa is stil for sale today at 19west.de, a Cologne, Germany based second hand design seller.
Update: Later Rob called me that he did not design this settee…
As usual, from one post comes another. I found another chair by Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890-1963). This one seems earlier than his two chairs I shared with you here earlier.
Also because I have a slight feeling that the original color of at least the seating was de Stijl Group primary red…Another detail is the strange and seemingly contradiction between a well curved frame and a rather uncomfortable seating with no curve at all, sharp edges and no backward inclination of the seating…
Via Deconet.
Found this photo on the web. It’s of a cool tubular chair by J.J.P. Oud (Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud 1890-1963), a Dutch architect, member of the Stijl Group and contemporary of Gerrit Rietveld. Oud was also involved in the design of the Weissenhof Siedlung in Germany which got Bauhaus a lot of Fame.
Via New Zealand Museum Te Papa
Update January 2023. And you know what? The name of this chair is The Knit Chair or The Knitting Chair….