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Navy Blue Space Age Modo 290 Chairs by Steen Østergaard for Nielaus, Set of 4
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This set of four iconic Modo 290 cantilever chairs was designed by architect and designer Steen Østergaard in 1966. Modo 290 is a one-piece shell chair with a design that still exudes futurism and clean design lines. The chairs are made of polyamide reinforced with fiberglass, dyed in full depth. The Model 290 was the world's first cantilever chair that was molded in a single operation that took 132 seconds. It also required the largest forming tool ever created at the time. The chair has a silky cobalt-navy blue gloss, is antistatic and does not delaminate. There is an attached cushion on the seat. They can be used both indoors and outdoors. This set was produced as part of a reissue by the Danish Nielaus manufactory. They have an embossed signature under the seat.
The Model 290 was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as a tribute to modern design. NASA has this chair at their headquarters, it was also featured in several science fiction movies from the 1960s and 1970s due to its futuristic design. But the biggest curiosity is that this model was the equipment of Italian monasteries, because it fit very well with the visual identity of the buildings with its ascetic and aesthetic expression.
Steen Østergaard was born in Denmark in 1935. Already at the age of 5, he was designing and building his own model airplanes. In 1965, he was elected the Furniture Designer of the Future. His classic polyamide furniture from the 1960s in the A 290 and 265 series is still sought after at international art auctions around the world. His deckchairs are at a missile base in Houston, Texas, where they are molded specifically to the ground so that they do not move when the rockets are launched. In 1981, he designed the first Action Recliner chair with a built-in footrest, copied all over the world today. For Steen, it is very important to combine aesthetic design with the human anatomy. Steen Østergaard worked with Finn Juhl, among others, won countless awards and created his own design company, where he continued the design ideas. As a perfectionist, he never stopped solving all kinds of technical problems in his work. Today he lives in the south of France, where he still works as a designer and always has new ideas on the drawing board.
Nielaus is a Danish furniture manufacturer whose history began in 1959. The company specialized in upholstered furniture with an emphasis on Danish design and good craftsmanship. It has been a family business for over 50 years. Several of the items in the collection have become classics and are still produced today. Over the years, collaborations with Arne Vodder, Steen Østergaard, Nissen & Gehl, Hee Welling, Ditlev Karsten, Andreas Hansen and Carlo Volf have helped establish Nielaus as one of Denmark's leading furniture manufacturers. 47 years after the design of the Modo 290 - the company has brought this iconic model back into production and since 2013 the Danish furniture manufacturer Nielaus has been working with Steen Østergaard in the production and sale of his unique designs, in line with the architect's original ideas. Nielaus is now responsible for the production of these chairs.
The set is in original condition. It has minor traces of use, minor scrapes. The seat is at a height of 45 cm.
- Creator:Steen Ostergaard (Designer),Nielaus (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 18.9 in (48 cm)Depth: 18.12 in (46 cm)Seat Height: 17.72 in (45 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 4
- Style:Space Age (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 2010
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. The set is in original condition. It has minor traces of use, minor scrapes.
- Seller Location:Warszawa, PL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6129238065332
Steen Ostergaard
Danish architect and industrial designer Steen Østergaard was decades ahead of his time with his futuristic Space Age designs. Through his innovative chairs, tables and other furniture, Østergaard elevated Scandinavian modern design during the mid-20th century.
Born in 1935, Østergaard studied furniture design and architecture at the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen in 1957, graduating with honors in 1960. That same year, he won first prize in furniture design at the Danish Upholstery Guild’s annual awards, presented at Copenhagen’s Designmuseum Danmark.
From 1962 to 1965, Østergaard worked in the studio of revered furniture designer and architect Finn Juhl before establishing his own firm. Østergaard’s watershed moment came in 1968 when he created the iconic Cado 290 chair. Later produced in 1970 by Danish designer Poul Cadovius’s Cado company, the chair — a brilliant one-piece work of polyamide nylon reinforced with fiberglass by way of injection-molding — features an elegant form inspired by the stackable seats created by Danish designer Verner Panton, who started experimenting with the concept of single-piece plastic chairs in the late 1950s. However, unlike the revolutionary Panton chair, Østergaard’s design includes optional cushions that can be affixed directly onto the chair’s frame.
Another of Østergaard’s exemplary seating pieces is the President Meteor lounge chair designed in 1968 as part of Cado’s A-Line collection. The indoor and outdoor chair was originally produced in six colors — beige, brown, green, white, red and blue — and incorporates a molded plastic frame with a deep, upholstered seat. The lounge chair appeared in the original Star Trek television series and film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and was used at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Østergaard is also known for furnishings such as his molded plastic dining room chairs, patio and garden furniture and ergonomic club chairs. In 1981, he designed and constructed the first Action Recliner chair, which included a built-in footrest, a piece now replicated around the world.
Østergaard’s furniture has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Deutsches Museum in Munich and Designmuseum Danmark.
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