Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
At Prodomo (Prodomo Wien which now forwards to Prodomo Windows) in the Naglergasse in Vienna I found this – dramatically modern – while in black and white – lounge chair annex recliner, the Sitzmachine that Josef Hoffmann designed over 100 years ago.
Christie’s is always digging up some special chair:
From it’s Lot notes on this Lounge Chair by Lucien Engels:
A Partially Ebonized Birch Low Chair, circa 1954 with painted metal details 39¾ in. (101 cm.) high
Estimate $4,000 – $6,000
Sale 2392, Historical Design Reflects: The East 61st Street Years, 8 December 2009, New York, Rockefeller Plaza
In 1950 Lucien Engels, an architect by training, received the commission to extend the home of Emile Vandervelde II, an important Socialist statesman, to design and build a new recreational building in Oostduinkerken together with a fellow architect, Roger de Winter. The layout for the building followed the same architectural spirit as the UNESCO building in Brussels which they designed several years later. The commissioned furniture was conceived to harmonize with both the color tonalities and form of the building. This commission was a master work for Lucien Engels which expressed the optimism of the post-war years and the idealism of a Socialist state from a modernist point of view. Only ten of the originally thirty executed chairs survived the demolition of the building.
Update: Price Realized $4,750
Last edited by gje on December 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Pair of Nested Chairs by Frank O. Gehry at LAMA
Lot 47
Artist: Frank O. Gehry
Manufacturer: Easy Edges
designed 1969-1973
These examples differ from the production by featuring lighter colored cardboard and Masonite.
Dimensions: Largest: 28.5″h x 18″w x 41″d; small: 25.5″h x 18″w x 36″d
Estimate: $2000-3000
Not published about Argentinean designer Pablo Reinoso for a very long long time. Again a designer with much to much flash in his site in my humble opinion. It took me some time to peel this photo from its multiple layer flash file, but I succeeded.
Crystallized Chair by Nina Edwards Anker
The various facets of the chair catch and reflect the changing daylight like a crystal. A variation of the cape chair, this chair is supported by a wide back and slender front foot. The chair consists of four components of 8mm thick plywood fastened together in two places, painted glossy white. The same 150 angle mold is used for forming all four wood pieces, increasing efficiency of mass production.
Via Nea