Walter Lamb Arm Chairs
By Walter Lamb
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Walter Lamb Arm Chairs. Manufactured by Brown Jordan Beautiful natural verdigris surface Set of 6
Category
1960s American Vintage Walter Lamb
Materials
Copper
Walter Lamb
American
Forward-looking architect Walter Lamb is best known for his revolutionary and widely loved patio furniture — he salvaged metal tubing from sunken ships in Pearl Harbor in the 1940s to create alluring chaise longues and other pieces for the backyard. His vintage furniture designs have been adorning patios worldwide for almost a century.
Trained as an architect at the University of California Berkeley campus, Lamb found himself in Hawaii during the 1940s. This period was a time of growth for furniture designers and manufacturers, as veterans were returning to the United States, getting married and starting families. These folks needed practical furniture for their new homes, and as the movement we now call mid-century modern took shape, imaginative architects and furniture makers would fill that need. Lamb was one such innovator.
Lamb worked the shaped tubing and fittings he’d gathered from battleship wreckage into proper frames and wrapped the structures in marine-grade cotton cording to create comfortable, element-proof outdoor furniture. Today his patio furniture has an esteemed place in the history of design. In fact, furniture enthusiasts are eager to restore and collect his iconic aged furniture rather than purchase reproductions.
Postwar California would become reputable as a manufacturing center for versatile furniture intended for both indoor and outdoor spaces. Seating, tables and other items — often made with rattan — produced by the likes of McGuire and Brown Jordan became a defining feature of organic modern living, a style that still characterizes many California interiors and influences innumerable design firms. Pasadena’s then-new Brown Jordan picked up Lamb’s designs, which eventually included dining tables, side tables and coffee and cocktail tables. And along with these furnishings, Lamb's sculptural vintage seating — his curvaceous lounge chairs and armchairs with cotton cord seats — while perfect for your fire pit, shouldn’t be relegated to outdoors-only settings.
Lamb received much acclaim for his work. The Museum of Modern Art in New York recognized his 1940s-era outdoor furniture for Brown Jordan with a design award.
On 1stDibs, find a noteworthy collection of vintage Walter Lamb furniture.
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Walter Lamb Square Lounge Chair
By Walter Lamb
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Walter Lamb Bronze and Rope Lounge Chair Manufactured by Brown Jordan Beautiful natural patina
Category
1960s American Vintage Walter Lamb
Materials
Bronze
Walter Lamb for Brown Jordan Bronze Patio Dining Set with Four Rocking Chairs
$35,000 / set
H 32 in W 20.75 in D 33 in
Walter Lamb for Brown Jordan Bronze Patio Dining Set with Four Rocking Chairs
By Brown Jordan, Walter Lamb
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Patio dining set featuring a round dining table with four bronze rocking chairs designed by Walter Lamb and produced by Brown Jordan. The chairs have a sculptural shape, with a singl...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Walter Lamb
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Dining Table Model C-2700 by Walter Lamb, 1950s
By Walter Lamb
Located in Hamburg, PA
Iconic and highly collectible Walter Lamb Model C-2700 bronze patio dining table, the 48-inch version. Designed in the late 1940s and produced by Brown Jordan throughout the 1950s an...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Walter Lamb
Materials
Bronze
Walter Lamb for Brown Jordan Bronze Patio Wide Lounge Chair
By Brown Jordan, Walter Lamb
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wide patio lounge chair by Walter Lamb for Brown Jordan. The chair has a simple construction in tubular bronze with a patinated finish, with rounded squares serving as runners on e...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Walter Lamb
Materials
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Walter Lamb for Brown Jordan Bronze Patio Chaise Lounge
By Walter Lamb, Brown Jordan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
S-Lounge patio chair by Walter Lamb for Brown Jordan. Graceful even for a Lamb design, the chaise lounge is rendered in bronze tubing with a seat of woven yacht cord. Its namesake ar...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Walter Lamb
Materials
Bronze
Walter Lamb, Chaise Longue, Bronze, Fabric, USA, 1955
By Brown Jordan, Walter Lamb
Located in High Point, NC
A bronze and fabric cord chaise longue designed by Walter Lamb and produced by Brown Jordan, USA, c. 1955. Seat Height (inches): 12.25" Arm Height (inches): 17.13" All items ship ...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Walter Lamb
Materials
Bronze
Walter Lamb for Brown Jordan Bronze Patio Rocking Chair
By Walter Lamb, Brown Jordan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A bronze rocking chair designed by Walter Lamb and produced by Brown Jordan. The chair has a sculptural shape, with a single formation of tubular bronze forming the backrest, arms, e...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Walter Lamb
Materials
Bronze
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Walter Lamb furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Walter Lamb furniture, although gold editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Walter Lamb were created in the mid-century modern style in united states during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Danny Ho Fong, William Billy Haines, and Dan Johnson. Prices for Walter Lamb furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $4,000 and can go as high as $35,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $8,700.
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