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Style: Mid-Century Modern
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Set of Two Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Kvadrat Fabric by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
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Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Egg, Model 3316 Designed by Arne Jacobsen, Manufactured by Fritz Hansen
Located in Lejre, DK
The egg, model 3316, is an iconic design chair created by the renowned Danish designer Arne Jacobsen in 1958. The chair is produced by Fritz Hansen, one of Denmark's leading furnitur...
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Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Aluminum

1960s Danish Design and Scandinavian Style Wooden and Velvet Fabric Chair
Located in Tourcoing, FR
1960s Danish Design and Scandinavian style wooden and velvet fabric chair, around the dining table, it will be perfect in the office too!  
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Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Modernist “Curve Bench” by Nina Moeller Designs
Located in London, GB
A stunning and absolutely top quality design, this is the wooden curve bench, made by Nina Moeller designs. These are designed with a very slight curve, ...
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British Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood

1960s Scandinavian Design and MCM Style Black Feet and Bouclé Fabric Armchair
Located in Tourcoing, FR
Vintage style and MCM design black wooden feet with beige Bouclé fabric fur effect rounded shaped armchair.
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Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Vintage Style and French Design All in Beige Bouclé Fabric Swivel Armchair
Located in Tourcoing, FR
Vintage style and MCM 1970s French Design all in beige bouclé fabric and brush brass base swivel armchair.
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Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric

Hans Wegner GE-370 Lounge Chair
Located in Berkeley, CA
Designed in 1969 by Hans Wegner, the 370 lounge chair pairs clean lines with remarkable craftsmanship. The chair is handcrafted at GETAMA’s factory in Gedsted, Denmark by skilled cab...
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Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Oak

Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Kvadrat Fabric by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphols...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Pierre Jeanneret Commitee Chair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Committee Chair designed by Pierre Jeanneret circa 1950 , relaunched in 2022. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. The Committee Chair is introduced in the original version and in a fr...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood

Gerrit Rietveld Zeilmaker Version of Black Red and Blue Chair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1920. Relaunched in 2015. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. One of the versions of the iconic model dated 1918. The structure is in black-stained beechwood with white contrasting parts. Seat and back in green lacquered multiplywood. The armchair can have a single seat and backrest cushion in fabric or leather. The black red and blue (Zeilmaker version) born from Rietveld’s chromatic experimentation While researching the origins of the red and blue model in collaboration with the Rietveld heirs, it emerged that the key idea of the first prototypes was based on the concept of spatial organization expressed through the monochrome tones of its elements. The first version was in fact produced in 1918 in completely unpainted wood.   In the following years Rietveld proposed various examples, either monochrome or painted in different colors, depending on the requirements of his customers and the interiors for which the chairs were intended. As such, it comes as no surprise to find this 1920s version, presented as part of Cassina’s MutAzioni selection, created for the school teacher Wicher Zeilmaker with a black frame with white ends and a dark green painted seat and backrest.  It was Rietveld’s ever-increasing involvement in the De Stijl movement that led him to also use primary colors on this model in 1923, and as such the chair became a veritable manifesto for the emerging neoplastic movement. Initially dubbed slat chair, Rietveld only gave it the name red and blue in the 1950s following its chromatic evolution. The various owners of the different examples used the chair as an abstract-realist sculpture in their interiors and, in some cases, as a simple tool for sitting on, adding cushions to make it more comfortable, just like Cassina offers for the black red and blue today. Important information regarding images of products: Please note that some of the images show other colors and variations of the model, these images are only to present interior design proposals. The item that is selling is on the first image. Important information regarding color(s) of products: Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colors and that everyone sees these colors differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the designer: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888, seems possessed of two personalities, each so distinct that one might take his work to be that of more than one artist. The first personality is that seen in the craftsman cabinet-maker working in a primordial idiom, re-inventing chairs and other furniture as if no one had ever built them before him and following a structural code all of his own; the second is that of the architect working with elegant formulas, determined to drive home the rationalist and neoplastic message in the context of European architecture. The two activities alternate, overlap, and fuse in a perfect osmosis unfolding then into a logical sequence. In 1918 Rietveld joined the “De Stijl” movement which had sprung up around the review of that name founded the year before by Theo van Doesburg. The group assimilated and translated into ideology certain laws on the dynamic breakdown of compositions (carrying them to an extreme) that had already been expressed in painting by the cubists: the “De Stijl” artists also carefully studied the architectonic lesson taught by the great Frank Lloyd Wright, whose influence was widely felt in Europe at that time. Collaborating first with Robert van’t Hoff and Vilmos Huszar...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood

Henrik Tengler, HT 2012 Black Leather Time Chair by One Collection
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The time chair is a dynamic and comfortable conference chair designed by Henrik Tengler in 2012. The chair is purposely designed not to follow current trend...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Steel

Trinidad Bar Stool Made In Stained Oak By Nanna Ditzel From 1998s
Located in Lejre, DK
The Trinidad bar stool, designed by the esteemed Nanna Ditzel as part of the Trinidad series in 1998, is a remarkable piece of modern furniture. Cr...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Oak

1960s Danish Design and Scandinavian Style Wooden and Bouclé Fabric Chair
Located in Tourcoing, FR
1960s Danish Design and Scandinavian style wooden and white bouclé fabric chair, around the dining table, it will be perfect in the office too!  
Category

Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Charles Rennie Mackintosh 292 Hill House Chair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1902. Relaunched in 1973. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This iconic chair reflects Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s style and his fearless approach to the most challenging manufacturing processes. Originally a furnishing accessory for one of Mackintosh’s major design projects, Hill House in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, Scotland, from which its name derives. The linear, geometric form is evocative of the minimal, abstract lines of Japanese graphics, which confer symbolic and figurative symbolic value to the piece’s striking visual impact. This piece is seen by many critics as not only a chair but also a veritable treatise on the way space can be articulated. The tall back is defined by a succession of vertical lines that are topped with a grid of verticals and horizontals. Thanks to the mastery of the furnitire makers of Meda, in the Brianza area north of Milan, Cassina has re-issued the Hill House chair...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Velvet, Wood

Bodil Kjær Principal Dining Wood Chair by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Bodil Kjær in 1959. One of the last living mid-century Scandinavian design pioneers and a female pioneer in the field of architecture in her time, Bodil Kjær, conc...
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Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood

Belle Epoque bent wood Moulin Bouclê latte Upholstered Bar Chair
Located in Lisbon, PT
The clean and sensual lines of the Moulin chair make this piece a comfortable and exuberant one, adorned with piping and a bent wood structure which frame...
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Portuguese Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Brass

Frank Lloyd Wright Coonley Chair for Cassina, Italy, new
Located in Berlin, DE
Please ask for pricing in other materials and colors. An extremely functional dining chair, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907 for the Avery Coonley House, one of the finest ...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Leather, Wood

Set of 8 Black Gaulino Chairs Chair by Oscar Tusquets
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of eight Gaulino chairs designed by Oscar Tusquets manufactured by BD Barcelona Design, circa 2010. Gaulino chair which, designed in 1987, was selected for the Industrial Desi...
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Spanish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Ash

Design Classic Verner Panton Cone Chairs, Vitra, 2000s
Located in Renens, CH
Originally designed by Verner Panton in the late 1950s for use in a restaurant, the Cone Chair soon became one of his most recognizable designs; Whether it is the simplicity of the...
Category

German Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Metal

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Zig Zag Chair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1934. Relaunched in 1973/ 2011. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Designed by Gerrit Rietveld, this chair provided an early example of...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood

Beige Bouclé and Black Metal Feet Dining Chair
Located in Tourcoing, FR
Beige Bouclé and black metal feet dining chair.
Category

Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Steel

Set of Six Rodolfo Dordoni ''Dine Out' Outside Chairs by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Outdoor chairs designed by Rodolfo Dordoni in 2020. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. The Dine Out collection of furniture is designed to add a touch of sophisticated style to the...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Rope, Wood

Pierre Jeanneret 051 Capitol Complex Office Chair with Cushion by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Pierre Jeanneret circa 1950, relaunched in 2019. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This chair is one of the most recognizable in Chandigarh’s Capitol Complex, f...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Cane, Wood

Set of Four Pierre Jeanneret 051 Capitol Complex Office Chair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Pierre Jeanneret circa 1950, relaunched in 2019. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This chair is one of the most recognisable in Chandigarh’s Capitol Complex, f...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Cane, Wood

Pair of Limited Edition Wood Chairs by Paolo Alves
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Pair of limited edition wicker and rare Brazilian wood chairs by Paolo Alves.
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Brazilian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wicker, Wood

Set of Two Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Kvadrat Fabric by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

1960s Italian Design Style Rattan and Beige Linen Fabric Armchair
Located in Tourcoing, FR
1960s Italian Design Style sculptural and gorgeous armchair all in rattan aerial structure with beige fabric cushions.
Category

Unknown Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Rattan

Pierre Jeanneret Commitee Armchair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Committee armchair designed by Pierre Jeanneret circa 1950 , relaunched in 2022. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Part of the Hommage à Pierre Jeanneret tribute collection, the din...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood

'OW149 Colonial' Chair in Walnut, Black Leather and Oil for Carl Hansen & Son
Located in Glendale, CA
'OW149 Colonial ' chair in oak, black leather and oil for Carl Hansen & Son The story of Danish Modern begins in 1908 when Carl Hansen opened his fir...
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Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood, Walnut

'OW149 Colonial' Chair in Oak, Black Leather and Oil for Carl Hansen & Son
Located in Glendale, CA
'OW149 Colonial' chair in oak, black leather and oil for Carl Hansen & Son The story of Danish Modern begins in 1908 when Carl Hansen opened his firs...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood, Oak

Set of Six Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood

Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Sørensen Leather by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood

Paul McCobb Origami Ivori Desk Patio Chair Model 61
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful elegant classic origami chair lightly used great color and condition, designed by Paul McCobb.
Category

American Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Metal

Set of Two Franco Albini Luisa Chairs, Wood and Fabric by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Franco Albini in 1953. Relaunched in 2013. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. The small armchair, dubbed Luisa, is the fruit of a fifteen-year process of exploration, focused on creating an archetype of the basic elements of a chair, and its potential uses within the home. A idea-based design, where Franco Albini expressed the concept of “substance in form”, increasing the volume of the wooden parts where they join with others. Following various enhancements, the definitive version of the chair was awarded the prestigious Compasso D’Oro prize by the Italian Industrial Design Association (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale/ADI). The frame represents a synthesis where the seat and the back are two geometric planes suspended on an understated wood structure, the sides reminiscent of trestles. Luisa is a timeless piece, the outcome of skill, both in terms of technique and of materials. This world exclusive Cassina re-issue, has been made possible thanks to the company’s extraordinary wood...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Handwoven Mexican Midcentury Inspired Cali Lounge Chair, Steel and Leather
Located in Mexico City, Delegación Cuauhtémoc
This handwoven midcentury inspired Cali lounge chair is a unique creation by León León Design from Mexico City, a modern version of the famous Acapulco chair. The Cali Natural Leather Handwoven Chair...
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Mexican Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Steel

Handwoven Midcentury Inspired Cali Lounge Chair, Copper Plating and Leather
Located in Mexico City, Delegación Cuauhtémoc
This chair is a unique creation by Leon Leon Design from Mexico City, a modern version of the famous Acapulco chair with a wider and more inclined seat and new materials. It feature...
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Mexican Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Copper, Steel

Frank Lloyd Wright Barrel Chair for Cassina
Located in Berlin, DE
The price given applies to the item as shown in the first picture. Prices vary dependent on the color and material of the chair. A timeless design informed by exceptional constructiv...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Pair of Custom Tiger Print Chairs in the Style of Milo Baughman
Located in Dallas, TX
Fabulous pair of custom built chairs with tiger print upholstery (as shown) or your choice of fabric for $5600 + 12 yards COM.
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American Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric

Krusin Armchair in Ebonized Oak by Marc Krusin for Knoll, USA, c. 2000's
Located in Deland, FL
Beautiful style and comfortable seating. The Krusin armchair with upholstered back inset from Knoll complements a broad range of established motifs with its subtle elegance and strai...
Category

American Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Oak

Luc Bar Stool
Located in Lisbon, PT
When it comes to Luc bar stool, the playing field is the cross-section where functional design and craftsmanship of the highest quality meet art. This ch...
Category

Portuguese Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood, Upholstery, Rattan

Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Sørensen Leather by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Upholst...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood

Grey Bouclé and Black Metal Feet Dining Chair
Located in Tourcoing, FR
Light Grey Bouclé and black metal feet dining chair.
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Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Steel

Set of Six Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Sørensen Leather by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood

Paolo Mahogany and Canvas Folding Director's Chair
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The Paolo Director's Chair is crafted from solid mahogany wood, paired with vintage style heavy loomed canvas. The chair is in the spirit of the c...
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Canadian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Canvas, Mahogany

Max ID NY Pair of Geometric Mahogany Wood Modern Arm Chairs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A pair of modern arm chairs constructed of a mahogany frame with natural finish and oak veneered wood seat with exposed edges Measures: D 35. in x W 26.4 in x H 33 in Maximilian Eicke having founded his minimalististic design studio Max ID NY...
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Unknown Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood, Mahogany

Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Sørensen Leather Chair by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood

Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Kvadrat Fabric by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Zig Zag Chair for Cassina, Italy, new
Located in Berlin, DE
Price is dependent on the chosen material/color. Chair designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1934. Relaunched in 1973/ 2011. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy.
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Wood

Charlotte Perriand 533 Doron Hotel Armchair for Cassina, Italy - new
Located in Berlin, DE
Prices vary dependent on the color and material. The price given applies to the chair as shown in the first picture. Charlotte Perriand 533 Doro...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fur, Wood

Set of Four Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Kvadrat Fabric by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Set of Two Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Kvadrat Fabric by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Le Corbusier, P.Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand LC2 Poltrona Armchair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Armchair designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1928. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Timeless, unique, and profoundly authentic, the LC2 armchair ha...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Steel

Set of Four '4' Krusin Armchairs in Ebonized Oak by Marc Krusin for Knoll, USA
Located in Deland, FL
Beautiful style and comfortable seating. The Krusin armchair with upholstered back inset from Knoll complements a broad range of established motifs with its subtle elegance and strai...
Category

American Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Oak

Set of Four Joe Colombo 'Chair 300' Wood and Kvadrat Fabric by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. Designed by the forward-thinking Italian designer Joe Colombo, Chair 300 is a beautiful example of his functional design sensibility. Uphol...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Gerrit Rietveld Zeilmaker Version of Black Red and Blue Chair by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1920. Relaunched in 2015. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. One of the versions of the iconic model dated 1918. The structure is in black-stained beechwood with white contrasting parts. Seat and back in green lacquered multiplywood. The armchair can have a single seat and backrest cushion in fabric or leather. The black red and blue (Zeilmaker version) born from Rietveld’s chromatic experimentation While researching the origins of the red and blue model in collaboration with the Rietveld heirs, it emerged that the key IDEA of the first prototypes was based on the concept of spatial organization expressed through the monochrome tones of its elements. The first version was in fact produced in 1918 in completely unpainted wood.   In the following years Rietveld proposed various examples, either monochrome or painted in different colors, depending on the requirements of his customers and the interiors for which the chairs were intended. As such, it comes as no surprise to find this 1920s version, presented as part of Cassina’s MutAzioni selection, created for the school teacher Wicher Zeilmaker with a black frame with white ends and a dark green painted seat and backrest.  It was Rietveld’s ever-increasing involvement in the De Stijl movement that led him to also use primary colors on this model in 1923, and as such the chair became a veritable manifesto for the emerging neoplastic movement. Initially dubbed slat chair, Rietveld only gave it the name red and blue in the 1950s following its chromatic evolution. The various owners of the different examples used the chair as an abstract-realist sculpture in their interiors and, in some cases, as a simple tool for sitting on, adding cushions to make it more comfortable, just like Cassina offers for the black red and blue today. Important information regarding images of products: Please note that some of the images show other colors and variations of the model, these images are only to present interior design proposals. The item that is selling is on the first image. Important information regarding color(s) of products: Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colors and that everyone sees these colors differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the designer: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888, seems possessed of two personalities, each so distinct that one might take his work to be that of more than one artist. The first personality is that seen in the craftsman cabinet-maker working in a primordial idiom, re-inventing chairs and other furniture as if no one had ever built them before him and following a structural code all of his own; the second is that of the architect working with elegant formulas, determined to drive home the rationalist and neoplastic message in the context of European architecture. The two activities alternate, overlap, and fuse in a perfect osmosis unfolding then into a logical sequence. In 1918 Rietveld joined the “De Stijl” movement which had sprung up around the review of that name founded the year before by Theo van Doesburg. The group assimilated and translated into ideology certain laws on the dynamic breakdown of compositions (carrying them to an extreme) that had already been expressed in painting by the cubists: the “De Stijl” artists also carefully studied the architectonic lesson taught by the great Frank Lloyd Wright, whose influence was widely felt in Europe at that time. Collaborating first with Robert van’t Hoff and Vilmos Huszar, then with Theo van Doesburg and Cornelius van Eesteren, Rietveld soon became one of the most distinguished interpreters of the neoplastic message. Among his most important works are: the Schröder house at Utrecht (1924); the “Row Houses” at Utrecht (1931-1934); the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennial (1954); the sculpture pavilion in the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller at Otterloo and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1955). Out of his equally important furniture, Cassina has chosen for its own production: the “Red and Blue” (1918), the “Zig-Zag” (1934), the “Schröder 1...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Leather, Wood

Mid-Century Modern Style Dining Chair in Pink Velvet and Gold Stainless Steel
Located in Porto, PT
Samira Dining Chair is sophisticated in the shape of a chair. This modern dining chair is upholstered matches wonderfully in any contemporary or luxury dining table. Materials: Upho...
Category

Portuguese Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Brass

Henrik Tengler, HT 2014 Brown Leather Time Chair by One Collection
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The tme chair is a dynamic and comfortable conference chair designed by Henrik Tengler in 2012. The chair is purposely designed not to follow current trends. Instead its aesthetic resembles the cosmopolitan functionalism of the Bauhaus period. Henrik Tengler has achieved this by incorporating an open steel frame and adding rm cushions. The 12 mm steel tube construction of the chair ensures unbeatable strength in spite of the delicate expression of the chair. Furthermore, the oversized cushions create a titillating exchange between the carrying and carried elements of the chair. Lastly, time and effort has gone into shaping every detail of the chair, giving it a highly exclusive feel. The chair allows for dynamic use and positions by responding to your movements. With clever features and ergonomic support, the time chair...
Category

Danish Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Steel

Charlotte Perriand LC7 Outdoor Chair for Cassina, Italy, new
Located in Berlin, DE
The price given applies to the piece as shown in the first picture. Prices vary dependent on the color and material of the chair. Outdoor LC7 chair designed by Charlotte Perriand i...
Category

Italian Mid-Century Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Chairs

Materials

Steel

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