Plywood Armchairs

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Set of six chroom Bauhaus chairs with plywood seat and backrest, 1930s The set has two armchairs and four normal chairs. German Art Deco black enameled wood armchair with chrome tri...

The slender and enveloping shape of the armchair originally served as protection from air currents and to keep in the warmth from the fireplace. This futuristic version with cabriole...

A contemporary interpretation of 18th century bergère style, this armchair is pure design and creativity. The legs in painted beech wood are available in various finishes. The body, ...

This set of four Dutch design stackable armchairs were designed by Gijs Van Der Sluis. They feature a black lacquered metal base and dark Blue seati...

Remarkable set of two Italian 1950s armchairs. Thin metal frame and sleek shaped seat with visual connections to Joseph-André Motte work.  

Attributed to Móveis Artísticos Z midcentury Brazilian armchair, 1950s. Constructed of plywood, this comfortable armchair is attributed to Móvei...

Industrial midcentury design by Tjerk Reijenga for Pilastro in 1962. The chair features a dark anthracite colored metal frame with armrests, back and seat made from teak plywood. Ve...

Stacking chair for apartments and lecture halls, with seat and rest made of plywood. The slit in the side frame is used to push through a bar to form a seated row at lectures. Made ...

Zanine Caldas midcentury Brazilian armchair, 1949 Plywood armchair designed by Zanine Caldas in the late 1940s for the Móveis Artíst...

Iconic vintage folding Rex lounge chair by Niko Kralj (1920-2013). Niko Kralj is one of the central figures of Slovenian post-war industrial design...

Beechwood or beech plywood construction by Lubomír Hofmann for TON (formely Thonet). Very good original condition, some of them very bright the final c...

Postmodern six ( 6 ) dining chairs designed and manufactured circa 1980, Italy. These dining chairs show a construct of sleek metal, while the seat and the back were made of natural...

Mid Century Modern set of six dining room chairs model Austro chair with armrests designed by Franz Schuster and executed by Wiesner-Hager (labelled). These dining room chairs are al...

Early Scandinavian Modern beech armchair with plywood seat and back. Usually produced by Fritz Hansen, this one manufactured by Thonet who produced them as well for some years

Mid Century Modern brown vintage chair with integrated desk from beech by Franz Schuster for Wiesner - Hager 1959. While the chair frame was made of so...

Beechwood or plywood walnut stained designed in the 1960s by Lubomír Hofmann and produced in Czechoslovakia by Ton furniture factory (formals Thonet). Chairs are still in original co...

"Bocconi" armchair and stool design Giuseppe Pagano by Gino Maggioni 1940s Plywood and rope seat Excellent condition Measure: Armchair: H 65 x W 60 x D 65 cm...

Surprisingly comfortable. The Tapiovaara's couple produced this leather and plywood armchair in 1948 for the Domus Academy Student complex in Helsinki in Finland. It was produced by...

This chair is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house. Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beac...

This chair, designed by Oswald Haerdtl, was manufactured by the successor company of Thonet, Narodni Podnik Ton in Bystrice pod Hostynem, Czech Republic in 1955. Seat and backrest ma...

Mid century Modern vintage foldable Arm Chair from orange lacquered plywood and beechwood. The Arm Chair is in very good original condition - execut...

JOSE ZANINE DE CALDAS (1919-2001). Pair of armchairs model “H.” Manufactured by Moveis Artísticos Z. Brazil, 1949. Marine plywood, fabric upholstery. Measuremenents 58 cm x 50 cm x 80 H cm. Literature: Habitat, nº9, Sao Paulo 1952. José Zanine Caldas (Belmonte, Bahia, 1918 - Vitória, Espírito Santo, 2001) was an architect and designer. Caldas stands out on the national architecture in Brazil for his exploration of the constructive qualities of Brazilian woods, defining his work with a warm rustic ambience, working on both high-end residential projects and also popular constructions. Never actually training as an architect, he starting working in the 1940s as a designer at Severo & Villares and as a member of the National Artistic Historical Heritage Service (Sphan). He opens a maquet studio in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked between 1941 and 1948, and, at the suggestion of Oswaldo Bratke (1907-1997), moved the studio to São Paulo, from 1949 to 1955. The studio served important modern architects of the two cities, and was responsible for most of the models presented in the book Modern Architecture in Brazil, 1956, by Henrique E. Mindlin (1911-1971).. During the 1940s, he also began developing and researching at the Institute of Technological Research of the University of São Paulo (IPT/USP), and was first introduced to plywood. In 1949, he founded the Fábrica Móveis Artísticos Z, with the objective of producing large-scale industrialized furniture, good quaility and afforable, the furniture was to be materialized using plywood sheets. This method minimized material waste and the need for artisan skills, as the parts were mechanically produced and the use of labor was only needed for the assembling of the furniture. His time at Móveis Artísticos Z, in 1953 was rather short lived and left the company in 1953 and instead worked on landscape projects until 1958 in São Paulo, when he moved to Brasília, where he built his first house, also in 1958, and coordinated the construction of others until 1964. Appointed by Rocha Miranda to Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997), he joined the University of Brasília (UnB) in 1962 and taught modeling classes until 1964, when he lost his position due to the military coup. He set off and travelled through Latin America and Africa, an experience that had a remarkable effect on his work. On return to Brazil he built his second house, the first of a series of projects in the Joatinga region of Rio de Janeiro. In 1968, he moved to Nova Viçosa, Bahia, and opened a workshop, which ran up until 1980. His experience in the Bahian city was shaped by his renewed love and contact with nature, and he began working closely with environmentalists. In one of these collaborations, he participated in the project of an environmental reserve with the artist Frans Krajcberg (1921-2017) for whom he also designed a studio in 1971. The furniture he designed during this period, is reflective of his ecological sensitivity, his works were constructed with crude logs of wood, whose twisted lines inspire his drawings. It is also in Nova Viçosa that the architect builds the Casa dos Triângulos (1970) and casa da Beira do Rio (1970), in which he adopted a very artisanal construction system with typical woods of the region. According to the historian and architecture critic Roberto Conduru, Caldas' performance was relevant for the diffusion of environmental values in architectural projects: a "taste for the alternative and the rustic was disseminated throughout the Brazilian territory [...], encouraged by environmental preservation campaigns, by the wear and tear of the current models in reinforced concrete and by the re-emergence of the regionalist ideal in the international panorama"1. Between 1970 and 1978, he kept an office in Rio de Janeiro, where he returned in 1982. In 1975, the filmmaker Antonio Carlos da Fontoura made the film Arquitetura de Morar, about the houses of Joatinga, with a soundtrack by Tom Jobim (1927-1993), for whom Caldas designed a house. Two years later, the architect's work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ), at the São Paulo Museum of Art Assis Chateaubriand (Masp) in Belo Horizonte, and the following year at Solar do Unhão, in Salvador. Between 1980 and 1982 The Helium House Olga Jr was designed and built in São Paulo. Caldas outlined the plans for the construction sourcing the all the wood, the actual assembly of the house was carried out by the owner. The house, is defined by wooden structure that stands out from the fence walls, the clay tile roof of wide eaves and the demolition materials that give the building the feeling of rusticity, warmth and nostalgia. The house was similar to those built in the 1970s for Eurico Ficher and Pedro Valente, in Joatinga. In 1983, Calders founded the Center for the Development of Applications of The Woods of Brazil (DAM), and gave it to UnB in 1985. During this period, he proposed the creation of the Escola do Fazer, a teaching center focused on the use of wood for the construction of houses, furniture and utilitarian objects for the low-income population. Despite the fact that much of Calders early work was centered around building houses for the elite, in the 1980s the designer dedicates himself the DAM where he rigorously researches popular housing based on artisan construction processes and whereby the users participate in the construction process. At the Brasília unit, he developed prototypes of popular houses with eucalyptus logs as a structure and sealing in soil-cement, betting on an ideal of self-construction already tested at Casa do Nilo, in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. From that moment on, as occurred with his the furniture designs, Caldas adopts the use of crude wood logs rolled...

Pair of Modernist "Jetson's" plywood and chrome armchairs, Classic Mid-Century design. Plywood seats and backs, retain original plaid wool seats. Excellent original condition.

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Koloman Moser (1868-1918) and Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956). Bent and polished beech and plywood, dyed to rosewood, brass inlays, renewed upholstery. Measures: Height 70 cm (27.5 in.)...

Unusual mid-century modern molded plywood desk chair possibly after H. Wegner.

Antoine Philippon and Jacqueline Lecoq ‘Comfort’ Armchair France, c. 1950 Meticulously restored and reupholstered in luxurious Holland & Sherry White Chamonix Boiled Wool. Molded Ma...

Joe Colombo armchair model 4801 designed 1963 for Kartel made of 3 plywood parts limited edition rare to find with the Original cushions

Jacob Müller's simple but inspired and light armchair, frame in ashwood, seat in plywood, produced by Wohnhilfe Switzerland 1950. This exemplar has a high back. The seat can easily b...

Gio Ponti, Rare pair of Bergere Armchairs for Isa Bergamo, Italy, 1950s A very rare pair of Gio Ponti armchairs, retaining their original green velvet, ISA Bergamo, Italy, 1950s. Th...

Set of four Costes armchairs with tubular structure in black lacquered steel, shell in black plywood finish, fixed upholstered cushions covered in black leather. Designed in the 80...

Designed by Brian Kane for Herman Miller, the Swoop furniture collection came from the designer’s observations while teaching students at the California College of Art. Taking its name from the sweeping curves of the silhouette, the Swoop chair...

Mid Century Modern set of 5 Vintage and Ingenious folding "Rex" lounge chairs by Niko Kralj (1920-2013). Niko Kralj is one of the central figures of Slovenian post-war industrial de...

These Czechoslovak lounge armchairs No.24-23 were designed by František Jirák for Tatra Nabytok in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1...

Wonderful pair of side chairs designed by Hanno Von Gustedt for Thonet from the late 1950s. Essentially a rare, early version of the S636 with bent-plywood seats and backs. Great loo...

Rare pair of lounge chairs by the known Belgium designer Alfred Hendrickx. The models shown is documented as the S12 model produced by Belform, Belgium in the late 1950s. The legs a...

An original Mario Marenco easy chair for Arflex dating from the 1970s. Featuring, squidgy, oversized cushions which are cleverly secured to appear a...