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Creator: Warren McArthur
Warren McArthur Modified Revolving Stool Aircraft Seat 1947/2024
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 Furniture
Materials
Metal, Aluminum, Steel
Warren McArthur for Warren McArthur Corporation Table or Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
Warren McArthur for Warren McArthur Corporation Table or Desk from the Virginia State Library, Richmond V.A.
Aluminum base, wood top with laminate surface
Dimensions:
30¼"high
50½" w...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Desk Chair
Located in Chicago, IL
Warren McArthur Desk Chair, Aluminum frame with upholstrey.
Reupholstered
Seat height 20"
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McCarthur Lounge Chair
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Sofa
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Warren McArthur, Sofa
Category
Mid-20th Century Furniture
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Aluminum and Leather Lounge Chair by Warren McArthur
Located in San Diego, CA
Art Deco aluminum and black leather lounge chair with hockey puck feet by Warren McArthur, circa 1930s. The chair frame and feet are in great original condition while the upholstery has been recently replaced with gorgeous black leather. What a looker! The chair measures 25.75"W x 32"D x 31.5"H with a seat height of 16". This is a very rare and hard to find chair and would be the focal point of any art deco or machine age room! Check out our period side tables that would look fabulous with this chair! #3094
Warren McArthur (1885–1961) was an American industrial and furniture designer who specialized in aluminum tubular furniture during the 1930s.
Warren McArthur, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois to Warren McArthur, Sr., a successful businessman, and Minnie Jewel McArthur. Frank Lloyd Wright was a friend of the McArthur family. In 1892, Wright designed the house for the McArthur family, located in Chicago.
McArthur attended Cornell University where he studied engineering. In the late 1920s, McArthur began his career as an industrial designer by creating furniture for the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, which was designed by his brother Albert Chase McArthur.
After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Arizona Biltmore failed, and McArthur moved to Los Angeles, California to create a furniture fabrication company. In the early 1930s, aluminum became a popular industrial design material, and McArthur developed a specialization in designing and making aluminum tubular furniture, including chairs, tables, sofas, lamps, and ashtrays.
McArthur soon began to receive commissions from prominent architects. Paul R. Williams commissioned McArthur to design 30 pieces of aluminum furniture for the Cord family who owned the Cord automobile company. He was also commissioned to make aluminum furniture for Rudolph Schindler's design for Sardi's restaurant location in Los Angeles.
So too, McArthur's aluminum furniture was popular with Hollywood stars and producers of the 1930s. His clients included Jack L. Warner, Marlene Dietrich, Fredric March...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Warren McArthur Two-Tier Desk with Drawers, Reversible, Machine Age 1930s
Located in Chicago, IL
Warren McArthur two-tier desk with drawers
Aluminum and black lacquered wood
Warren McArthur Corporation, 1930s
Measures: 48" x 24" x 30" desk height
Desk is reversible, and ca...
Category
1930s Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Warren McArthur Arizona Biltmore Era Lounge Chair and Ottoman C. 1931
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Machine Age Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Rolling Cart Yellow and Green Anodized Rings, circa 1938
Located in Camden, ME
Rare Warren McArthur bar cart / service cart from the late 1930s with yellow and green turnings.
Green Vitrolite shelf inserts are replacements.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Coffee Table ca' 1930's
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Unusual Warren McArthur coffee table with architectural, machine age base and original formica black top. Signed underneath.
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Side Table with Patinated Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Warren McArthur aluminum table with patinated wooden top.
Category
1930s Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Rolling Bar Cart Rome Ny C, 1933/34
Located in Camden, ME
A Warren McArthur modernist rolling bar cart manufactured during the first years Warren was located in Rome, New York.
The Warren McArthur Corporation moved from Los Angeles to Rome, New York in January of 1933.
The label ending in "PATS APPLIED FOR" identifies the bar as being manufactured in Rome between 1933/34.
The use of square half inch tubing for the rails bordering the shelves and the staggered count of one, two or three tubes is a well considered contrast to the one inch round tubing that comprises the main body of the bar frame.
The inch and half rectangular U tube that forms the foundation tube of the bar cart gives the necessary strength as well as a strong rectilinear visual that lends a visual balance with the half inch rectangular tubing.
The spacing of the three half round shelves...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Machine Age Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Lounge Chair in Original Leather
Located in Dallas, TX
Warren McArthur for Namco lounge chair in original leather.
Category
1930s Vintage Furniture
Materials
Leather
Warren McArthur Streamline Modern Aluminum Black Coffee Table Model 1559-s 1930s
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Warren McArthur
Coffee table, model 1559-s
Warren McArthur Corporation
USA, c. 1930
enameled aluminum, laminate
18½ h × 30 dia in (47 × 76 cm)
literature: Warren McArthur Corporation, Donnelly, pg. 50
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 Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Warren McArthur Console / Hall Table, Art Deco, Machine Age, 1930's
Located in Buffalo, NY
Extremely rare demilune console table designed by Warren McArthur. Amazing design, proportion, table has been re-painted (at some point) Retains remnants of original label, Also orig...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Armchair in Original Leather
Located in Dallas, TX
A beautifully patinated leather and aluminum armchair designed by Warren McArthur, 1930's.
Category
1930s Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Aluminum Warren McArthur Sling Chaises / Lounge Chairs, 1938
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Bauhaus Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Streamline Modern Aluminum Chair, Art Deco, 1930s, USA
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur, Arm Chairs, Steel, Vinyl, United States, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
A set of steel and vinyl chairs, created by Warren McArthur, United States, 1930s.
Category
1930s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture
Materials
Steel
Pair of Warren McArthur Pull-Up Chairs, 1930's
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Console Sky Blue Cafolite Top c. 1935
Located in Camden, ME
Unusual Warren McArthur console or perhaps a work table from a department store or beauty salon cosmetic cubicle.
The sky blue Cafolite top was produced for the Warren McArthur Corp...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Round Desk Chair Style No. 1083 AU Rome New York 1935/36
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Z Chair Model 708, circa 1938
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Pair of Chairs a Revision of The Sardi's Chair
Located in Chicago, IL
Warren McArthur pair of chairs a Revision of Sardi's chair, a collaboration with Rudolph Schindler.
Model #1251 AR manufactured in Rome, New York i...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Selection of Warren McArthur Chairs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Art Deco aluminum chairs, designed by Warren McArthur, American, circa 1930s. These can be used as dining, desk, or occasional cha...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
Warren McArthur Four Lounge Chairs, Circa 1939
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Four Warren McArthur Chairs
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Four Warren McArthur dining chairs. The aluminium shows wear and one of the chairs is missing its cross bar (picture attached). They have been newly reupholstered. They measure 17.5"...
Category
1940s American Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Adjustable Chaise Style No. 636, circa 1938
Located in Camden, ME
A Warren McArthur webbed adjustable chaise Style No. 636 manufactured in the mid-1930s.
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Folding Chair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Original period turquoise upholstery
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Category
1950s American Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Armchair Warren McArthur Rare Model with Hidden Ashtrays
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of metal armchairs designed by Warren McArthur (1885-1961) and made by Warren McArthur Corporation for Chrysler headquarter in Chicago b...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Warren McArthur Lounge Chairs
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of Warren McArthur lounge chairs, model 1031-A, Machine-made anodized aluminum with rubber feet. Upholstered with great plains cotton-poly fabric.
Frames have natural oxidation...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Art Deco Aluminum Armchair, 1930s
Located in San Francisco, CA
A rare mid-1930s Art Deco aluminum armchair by important American designer Warren McArthur.
Displays McArthur’s signature Streamline Moderne-meets-...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Steel, Aluminum
Pair of Warren McArthur Sofas
Located in Chicago, IL
Warren McArthur sofas, model 915 anodized aluminum, machine pressed aluminum fittings. Reupholstered with Great Plains cotton-linen fabric. Padded bolster arms.
Measures: Outside ar...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Warren McArthur for Namco Lounge Chairs
By Warren McArthur, Namco
Located in Chicago, IL
Aluminum and leather lounges by Warren McArthur for Namco. Restored with spinney back leather.
Category
1930s Australian Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Vanity Stool Style No. 1131, circa 1936
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Classic Pair of Art Deco Machine Age Aluminium Lounge Chairs by Warren McArthur
Located in Buffalo, NY
Matched pair of Art Deco. Machine Age aluminium lounge chairs by Warren McArthur, original unmolested condition, retains original cut mohair fabric upholstery as well as McArthur lab...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Armchair Style No. 1038 AU, circa 1933-1935
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Aluminium Armchair Style No 1170 AU, circa 1939
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 Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Coat Rack
Located in San Mateo, CA
Aluminum coat rack by Warren McArthur. This rack has a slight lean to one side, see the last photo. There is some spots of wear to the aluminum.
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Chrysler Showroom Conference Table, circa 1934
Located in Camden, ME
A rare early Warren McArthur 6' conference table from the original Chrysler Desoto corporate showroom in Detroit. (see image 2 showing this table in a McArthur photo of part of the W...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Transitional Side Table/Etagere by Warren McArthur
Located in Stamford, CT
A ebonized and polished Aluminum side table by Warren McArthur. This side table is almost certainly from 1929, showing the prevalence of the triangle in McArthurs work around the tim...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Slat Back Three-Seat Sofa Warren McArthur 1930's
Located in Camden, ME
A slat back three-seat sofa, an early design by Warren McArthur manufactured in Rome, New York in 1933-1934.
The slat back seating of Warren McArthur is his first seating design int...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Aircraft Seating Proposal Drawing, 1941
Located in Camden, ME
Warren McArthur rare original pencil proposal sketch (SK 1749) for an aircraft passenger seat for the Lockheed Corporation.
This proposal was accepted and the seat was manufactured...
Category
1940s American Industrial Vintage Furniture
Materials
Paper
Warren McArthur Desk
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Black lacquered top and drawers in aluminium tube base, with aluminum handles. Original lacquer finish.
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Aircraft Seat Grumman Albatross, circa 1947
Located in Camden, ME
Warren McArthur (Model 364) rare and unusual revolving navigator's seat designed in 1947 for the Grumman Aircraft Co.'s XJR2F known as the Albatross.
This would make an interesting...
Category
1940s American Industrial Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Library Table, the Library of Virginia, 1940
Located in Camden, ME
Classic side table occasional table by Warren McArthur commissioned for the State Library of Virginia, delivered in August of 1940.
The top is laminated Bakelite...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Classic Warren McArthur "J" Leg Art Deco Center Table
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of the rarer forms,,Stunning Art Deco,Machine Age Center table,designed by Warren McArthur.Aluminum in Beautiful original condition, free of dents,,scratches etc. Original vitrol...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Corp. Aircraft Co-Pilot Proposal Drawing, 1946
Located in Camden, ME
Interesting vintage proposal drawing in 1/2 scale of an aircraft co-pilot seat. Dated 1/12/46 from the Warren McArthur Corporation.
Drawing measures 26 x 4...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Warren McArthur Set of Four Webbed Lounge Chairs Style No. 612, circa 1938
Located in Camden, ME
Warren McArthur rare suite of four webbed anodized aluminum armchairs from a Long Island New York estate.
Light weight anodized aluminum frames with original webbing distinguish these lounges. This design was known as the tennis chair...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Industrial Modernist Anodized Aluminum Warren McArthur Park Ave Sofa
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Beautiful and rare McArthur sofa created in the early thirties, an icon of the Hollywood era. His signature grid with aluminum curved tubing, tootsie roll armrests and black puck feet are all present on this sofa. Notched tubes and milled washers another feature well represented. This sofa carries his Park Ave...
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Warren McArthur Aluminum and Cushioned Black Leather Side Chair, 1930s
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Warren McArthur Machine Age anodized aluminum and black leather desk chair. Featuring braced aluminum framework with Art Deco detailing. Newly upholstered in black leather, with cus...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
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