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Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine White Leather 21st Century Modern
Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine White Leather 21st Century Modern

Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine White Leather 21st Century Modern

By Joanina and David Pastoll

Located in Johannesburg, ZA

Stripped away from all excess, this hanging chair has a circular frame with the sheets of soft leather hanging loose within it, to create a sleek, sexy, and oh so comfortable experie...

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Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Black Leather 21st Century Modern

Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Black Leather 21st Century Modern

By Joanina and David Pastoll

Located in Johannesburg, ZA

Stripped away from all excess, this hanging chair has a circular frame with the sheets of soft leather hanging loose within it, to create a sleek, sexy, and oh so comfortable experie...

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Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Brown Leather 21st Century Modern
Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Brown Leather 21st Century Modern

Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Brown Leather 21st Century Modern

By Joanina and David Pastoll

Located in Johannesburg, ZA

Stripped away from all excess, this hanging chair has a circular frame with a sheet of natural thick leather hanging loose within it, to create a sleek, sexy, and oh so comfortable e...

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Sling Rose Pink Grey Machine Stitched Genuine Leather Hanging Swing Chair

Sling Rose Pink Grey Machine Stitched Genuine Leather Hanging Swing Chair

By Joanina and David Pastoll

Located in Johannesburg, ZA

Stripped away from all excess, this hanging chair has a circular frame with the sheets of leather or fabric hanging loose within it, to create a sleek, sexy, and oh so comfortable ex...

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Modern Outdoor Sling Chair by Studio Stirling team

Modern Outdoor Sling Chair by Studio Stirling team

By Joanina and David Pastoll

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Our Outdoor Sling hanging chair swing seat is crafted with Spradling Silvertex material – a highly sustainable environmentally-friendly vegan material.

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Angular Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Leather 21st Century Modern
Angular Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Leather 21st Century Modern

Angular Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Leather 21st Century Modern

By Joanina and David Pastoll

Located in Johannesburg, ZA

The Angular Sling chair is spacious, comfortable and striking in its looks. It has an air of functional elegance. It has an angular metal frame and is complimented with the use of na...

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Minimal Modern One of a Kind Blue and Gold Sling Hanging Swing Chair

Minimal Modern One of a Kind Blue and Gold Sling Hanging Swing Chair

By Joanina and David Pastoll

Located in Johannesburg, ZA

Stripped away from all excess, this hanging chair has a circular frame with the seat made of leather hanging loose within it, to create a sleek, sexy, and oh so comfortable experienc...

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2010s South African Modern Chairs

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Steel

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A Close Look at Modern Furniture

The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”

Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.

Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.

It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.

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With the exception of rocking chairs, the majority of the seating in our homes today — Windsor chairs, chaise longues, wingback chairs — originated in either England or France. Art Nouveau chairs, the style of which also originated in those regions, embraced the inherent magnificence of the natural world with decorative flourishes and refined designs that blended both curved and geometric contour lines. While craftsmanship and styles have evolved in the past century, chairs have had a singular significance in our lives, no matter what your favorite chair looks like.

“The chair is the piece of furniture that is closest to human beings,” said Hans Wegner. The revered Danish cabinetmaker and furniture designer was prolific, having designed nearly 500 chairs over the course of his lifetime. His beloved designs include the Wishbone chair, the wingback Papa Bear chair and many more.

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A good chair anchors us to a place and can become an object of timeless appeal. Take a seat and browse the rich variety of vintage, new and antique chairs on 1stDibs today. 

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