This armchair, and others like it, stem from Aaltos Armchair 41, designed in 1930.
Aalto was concerned with bent laminated and ply-wood, searching out its strengths in curves and in cantilever structures.
He had designed a cantilever chair in 1930, using a formed plywood seat/back on a metal frame, but after three years of experimenting, during which he laminated and formed the wood himself in many variations.
Designed for standing with some of the weight off one's legs in spaces too restricted for sitting, the Appoggio is anatomically shaped to correspond to...
This chair is made up of two bent steel tubes forming legs, arms and back, fixed to a flat-section steel seat frame. This is filled with a flat seat pad...
Although ostensibly a 'folksy' traditional chair, on close examination this turns out to be one of the few truly modern designs in plain wood constructi...
This chair was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German Government pavilion, which he designed for the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929.
DINING / The Directional collection offers a wide selection of dining room furniture. The tables in this section range from small extension tables suita...
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. John Masson COST FACTS: $13,000 in 1951-52. Square footage: house 1012, terrace 210 (figured at one-half) at $11.50 per square foot.
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This is the first single form plastic chair, and is still one of the most satisfying and sensible. Whether or not there was any direct influence, Panton...
Armchair 12 by Kjaerholm