Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Time to share this austere bench by Berlage with you. Recently on display at a Berlage overview exhibition at The Hague City Museum of Modern Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag). Again, although you can barely see it, the back reclines a bit and the load is not on the legs but on the seating, which is typical for Berlage’s chair design.
Time to share with you another chair by Hendrik Petrus Berlage: His 3 legged chair, or should I say his 3 legged stool?
Time to share some chairs by Hendrik Pieter Berlage. First photos of the main inspiration for Berlage’s chair designs: An Egyptian Chair.
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) is an important Dutch Architect who strongly believed in total concepts and therefor was involved in interior decoration and furniture design as well.
Currently there is a Berlage exposition at the The Hague City Museum of Modern Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) with an overview of Berlage’s work, because of the celebration of the opening of the museum – which was a design of Berlage – 75 years ago. Luckily for the chair aficionados there are many chairs from him on display until February 27, 2011. Berlage studied in Zurich and also traveled in the USA in 1911. Therefore it is not strange that he was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.