Beetle Lounge Chair, Fully Upholstered, Wood Base, Smoked Oak

About the Item

Continuing the success of the Beetle Collection, GUBI is adding a wood base to the Beetle Lounge Chair in oak, smoked oak finish and black stained beech. The Beetle lounge chair carries strong references to GamFratesi’s inspirational source; the four-legged insect, the beetle. The design of the Beetle Lounge Chair reinterprets the characteristic elements of the beetles’ sections: shape, shells, sutures, rigid outside and soft inside. Adding a wooden base in oak, smoked oak finish and black stained beech gives the Beetle lounge chair an authentic look that adds warmth to any interior. With an eye for details, GamFratesi has found the perfect shape where every line and curve have been designed to give the perfect balance to the chair. The new base enables the Beetle Lounge Chair to be featured in new, elegant settings where wood will work as the preferred material. Lead time: 6-8 weeks.

Creator:

GamFratesi Design Studio (Designer),Gubi (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 30.75 in (78.11 cm)Depth: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Seat Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Oak,Blackened

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

Contemporary

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)

Estimated Production Time:

Available Now

Condition:

Seller Location:

Berkeley, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1353215430062

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Gubi

Iconic Danish furniture and lighting manufacturer Gubi was founded in Copenhagen by designer-couple Lisbeth and Gubi Olsen in 1967. The brand is celebrated globally for its innovative chairs, lighting fixtures, mirrors, sofas and other furnishings and decor.

The company began as a platform to manufacture the textiles and furniture designed by Lisbeth and Gubi. Soon, the business model broadened. While recent contemporary pieces manufactured by Gubi such as GamFratesi’s Beetle chair have become darlings of today’s interiors, the company is also widely known as a leader in reissuing exquisite Scandinavian and other mid-century modern furniture by a range of design legends.

Swedish architect and interior designer Greta Magnusson Grossman — the first woman to receive a prize for furniture design from the Swedish Society of Industrial Design — emigrated to the United States and built 14 homes in Los Angeles in the postwar era that were inspired by the Case Study Houses. She furnished these homes with her own designs, and her impossibly sleek Grasshopper table lamps and floor lamps — created for Barker Bros. but today made by Gubi — were frequent fixtures in the interiors. Another Scandinavian architect and industrial designer, Louis Weisdorf designed the wildly popular Multi-Lite line of lighting fixtures, which were originally created during the early 1970s and reissued by Gubi in 2016.

Beyond lighting, Spanish designer Barbara Corsini created the distinctively geometric Pedrera coffee table during the mid-1950s that is now made by Gubi, while the Hungarian-born French master of postwar design, Mathieu Matégot, created the Tropique dining table and an elegant three-legged Nagasaki chair, both of which were reissued by the Danish brand. French furniture designer Pierre Paulin created the inviting, organically shaped Pacha lounge chair in 1975. This design yielded a loveseat and a sofa as well. All of these pieces were reissued by Gubi.

Since 2001, Gubi founders’ son, Jacob Olsen, has managed the company, and travels the world to find heirs to the iconic designers of yesteryear in order to secure permission to give their works a second life.

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