Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
American
Few 20th-century designers had influential furniture that regularly flew at 30,000 feet, but Warren McArthur did. His work — and the work of his company, the Warren McArthur Corporation — on seating for military aircraft came near the end of his career, following decades of Machine Age furniture shaped from tubular forms and made of steel, chrome and aluminum.
Warren McArthur Jr. graduated with an engineering degree from Cornell University in 1908. After moving to Los Angeles in 1929, he founded the Warren McArthur Corporation a year later. His initial output of sleek, metal designs were popular in offices and hotels.
At the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, Americans witnessed a new “Streamlined America” campaign, which included everyday furniture made from metal, opening the door for McArthur and other Machine Age designers to a residential audience. With this increase in demand for metal furniture, the Warren McArthur Corporation relocated to Rome, New York, and sold their aluminum furnishings out of a showroom on Park Avenue in New York City.
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Fredric March and Clark Gable were among his A-list clientele. McArthur also produced furniture for the dining cars on the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chrysler Headquarters. His designs were featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1934 exhibition “Contemporary American Industrial Art.”
During World War II, McArthur pivoted production after a ban on the private use of aluminum. McArthur made an estimated three-quarters of all American military aircraft seating, including adjustable seats for the Beechcraft C-45 and revolving seats for navigators aboard the Grumman HU-16 Albatross.
Warren McArthur closed his business in 1948. He died in 1961.
On 1stDibs, find vintage Warren McArthur armchairs, tables and other seating.
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Creator: Warren McArthur Corporation
Warren McArthur Desk Chair
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Chicago, IL
Warren McArthur Desk Chair, Aluminum frame with upholstrey.
Reupholstered
Seat height 20"
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Modified Revolving Stool Aircraft Seat 1947/2024
By Warren McArthur, Warren McArthur Corporation
Located in Camden, ME
A rotating stool made from a Warren McArthur designed aircraft navigational stool created in 1947 for Grumman Aircraft Corporation.
The Grumman Albatross SA-16 was developed as an a...
Category
1940s American Industrial Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Metal, Aluminum, Steel
Warren McCarthur Lounge Chair
By Warren McArthur, Warren McArthur Corporation
Located in Chicago, IL
Warren McArthur Lounge Chairs by Warren McArthur Corporation
aluminum frame , upholstery Great Plains woven wool, rubber feet
Dimensions:
31"high
26" wide
30" deep
Category
1930s Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Warren McArthur Arizona Biltmore Era Lounge Chair and Ottoman C. 1931
By Warren McArthur, Warren McArthur Corporation
Located in Camden, ME
A wonderful Warren McArthur club chair and ottoman that personify the comfort of his furniture.
Warren's patented compression assembly was designed to provide flexibility in the frame to add more comfort via a slight flex in addition to the cushions.
The aluminum strap back added to this flexibility in contrast to the rigid welded steel tube frame that was the standard of McArthur's contemporaries.
This club chair and ottoman were manufactured at the Warren McArthur Furniture Company in Los Angeles between 1931/33.
The chair's design, while similar in overall look, predates Warren McArthur's classic Park Avenue Lounge (Style No. 1003 EAU p. 9 of his 1936 corporation catalog) by at least two years.
This is the only example of this chair that I have seen.
The pair was said to have come from the Arizona Biltmore but I cannot confirm that provenance.
The absence of labels is typical of all Arizona Biltmore furniture...
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Mid-20th Century American Machine Age Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Aluminum Warren McArthur Sling Chaises / Lounge Chairs, 1938
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Camden, ME
Pair of lounge chairs by Warren McArthur manufactured at his factory in Connecticut in the late 1930s.
The designs that Warren introduced in the very beginning of his furniture making he referred to as "suspension chairs...
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Mid-20th Century American Bauhaus Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Streamline Modern Aluminum Chair, Art Deco, 1930s, USA
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Warren McArthur chair, Warren McArthur Corporation, aluminum, leather, copper, rubber, USA, 1930s. Measures: 33½ H × 17 W × 21 D in
Provenance: Collection of Stuart Parr Private Collection
Warren McArthur Jr. was an innovator in Machine Age/ Art Deco furniture design.
McArthur moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1929 to pursue metal furniture manufacturing; . he founded the Warren McArthur Corporation there in 1930. His furniture designs while unique were true to the Machine Age aesthetic. Machine Age design emphasized sleek forms inspired by automobiles, locomotives and airplanes. These objects were symbols of progress and modernity to the American consumer and industrial designers began constructing furniture in streamlined designs from steel, chrome and aluminum.
Prior to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, known as the “Century of Progress Exhibition.” The fair’s tagline, “See America Streamlined,” and the abundance of metal furniture and home goods exhibited finally presented the concept of utilizing metal designs in the typical American household. The Museum of Modern Art followed suit in subsequent years with exhibitions like "Machine Art," (1934), and "Bauhaus 1919-1928" (1938), further exposing the American public to this design style.
The Warren McArthur Corporation moved manufacturing to Rome, New York in 1933, just as metal furniture was gaining popularity; the company’s products were sold out of a showroom in New York City on Park Avenue. As a manufacturer, McArthur filed numerous patent designs which he utilized in advertisements to exhibit the innovations he developed. The company also proudly printed patent numbers on furniture...
Category
1930s American Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Warren McArthur Pull-Up Chairs, 1930's
By Warren McArthur, Warren McArthur Corporation
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of Warren McArthur pull-up chairs, 1930's Aluminum tubular frame with back-slats.
Manufactured in Rome, New York Decal underside.
We reupholstered with new Iron Cloth, a polye...
Category
1930s American Industrial Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Round Desk Chair Style No. 1083 AU Rome New York 1935/36
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Camden, ME
Rare Warren McArthur desk chair manufactured in Rome New York in the mid 1930s.
The circular framed chairs of which to my knowledge there were only five designs produced, Models 1040...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Four Lounge Chairs, Circa 1939
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Camden, ME
Warren McArthur suite of four lounge chairs circa late 1930s. These seldom seen examples retain their original finish to their tubular aluminum fram...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Z Chair Model 708, circa 1938
By Warren McArthur, Warren McArthur Corporation
Located in Camden, ME
Warren McArthur anodixzed aluminum light armchair Model 708 manufactured by the Warren McArthur Corporation circa 1938.
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Aluminium Armchair Style No 1170 AU, circa 1939
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Camden, ME
A Warren McArthur aluminium armchair style no 1170 AU in excellent vintage condition.
This chair is a classic example of Warren's mastery of tube bending.
The elongated S of the b...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Armchair Style No. 1038 AU, circa 1933-1935
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Camden, ME
A Warren McArthur armchair from the early to mid-1930s has an anodized aluminum frame. Titled "The Office Manager" in his 1936 furniture catalog and listed as Style No. 1038 AU (arm ...
Category
1930s American Bauhaus Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Vanity Stool Style No. 1131, circa 1936
By Warren McArthur Corporation, Warren McArthur
Located in Camden, ME
Warren McArthur aluminum vanity stool from the mid- 1930s.
The stool is worn and has a separation crack on the inside edge of one of the floor tube. Early McArthur is made from weld...
Category
1930s American Bauhaus Vintage Warren McArthur Corporation Seating
Materials
Aluminum
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