Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Wing sofa with integrated side tables by Roy Fleetwood, ca. 1988
Leather, brushed tubular steel, glass, plastic. 31 x 118 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (78.7 x 301 x 55.2 cm.), fully extended Manufactured in a small series by Vitra, Switzerland.
ESTIMATE $10,000-15,000
Via Phillips de Pury
Pair of aluminum No II chairs, by Maarten van Sevener, ca. 1998
Bent aluminum sheet, tubular aluminum. Each: 30 1/2 in. (77.5 cm.) high Produced by Maarten Van Severen MEUBELEN, Belgium (2).
ESTIMATE $5,000-7,000LITERATURE Maarten Van Severen, Maarten Van Severen: Work, Oostkamp, 2004, pp. 36 and 39, pp. 38 and 40 for similar examples and p. 42 for a drawing
Prototype thin Chaise Ressort by Francois Dallegret, 1967
Formed aluminum sheet. 39 in. (99.1 cm.) high
ESTIMATE $24,000-32,000EXHIBITED Centre de Création et de Diffusion en Design, Université du Québec, Montréal, 1985; Saidye Bronfman Cultural Center, Montreal, 1999
LITERATURE The Architectural Forum, May 1969, p. 99; L’Architecture d’Aujord’hui, May 1971, p. 64; Peter Blake, Artscanada, February-March 1972, p. 66; Vie des Arts, no. 68, Autumn 1972, front cover and p. 21; Archi-crée, May/June/July 1984, pp. 102-103
Pair of Gazelle lounge chairs by Dan Johnson ca. 1956
Patinated bronze, cane. Each: 26 3/4 in. (67.9 cm.) high Produced by Dan Johnson Studio, USA and Italy (2).
ESTIMATE $40,000-60,000LITERATURE Jerryll Habegger and Joseph H. Osman, Sourcebook of Modern Furniture, New York, 2005, p. 415, fig. 11-91 for an example executed in walnut
Suede, tubular steel. 72 x 30 x 32 in. (182.9 x 76.2 x 81.3 cm)
ESTIMATE $30,000-50,000LITERATURE Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobilier du XXe Siècle, Dictionnaire des Créateurs, Paris, 1994, p. 561; Jean Royère, Décorateur à Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1999, p. 66; Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, Jean Royère, Paris, 2002, p. 8