Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
This Red Blue Lego Chair by Mario Monale Minale after Gerrit Rietveld for Droog Design is for sale at Phillips de Pury. Estimate £20,000-25,000.
Added September 14, 2009:
It appears I made an error in this post, the same error Phillips de Pury made: The designer is not Mario Monale, but Rotterdam based Mario Minale of the Minale Maeda studio.
Here is a detail of the chair:
Retro Vegas seems to have a nice original Mart Stam cantilever chair.
This reminds me of a prior post: The Cantilever Chair: By Mart Stam, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or by Marcel Breuer?
Two brothers, Matthieu (1815-1889) and Willem Horrix (1816-1881) started to build their furniture manufacturing company, Meubelenfabriek Anna Palowna, in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1850. The company was closed in 1890 after Matthieu died. Matthieu was the designer of the two. They had their training in the family business and in Paris. One of their famous chairs, a royal throne used at the coronation of William III as King of The Netherlands belongs to the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
I found this Horrix sofa photo somewhere on the Internet. Ah I now see the photo is probably from the The Hague Notary Public Auction House (Venduhuis der Notarissen) where two of these canapes were sold for Euro 800.- and Euro 900.- respectively in May 2007.
Two Horrix chairs can be found in the Delft Technical University Chair Collection (Architecture School TU Delft) .
Found this beautiful photo of a Lavender Adirondack chair on Earth Shots.
BTW if you are looking for free Adirondack plans look here at Woodwork City
Sunday, strolling over the The Hague open air antique fair, I noticed this dark red Barcelona Chair with ottoman.. If only Ludwig knew…
Currently it is so hot that the trees are losing their leaves due to heat stress as if it is autumn.
To me the back looks as if it is an original one, but I’m not sure.
Does the little Persian rug detonate or not? I believe it does and you?