Set of 4 Birch Plywood Chairs, Sweden, Early-1950s

A vintage set of four beech Model 811 chairs designed by Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann in the mid to late 1920s. The chair was featured on the front cover of Thonet-Mundus' catal...

A teak chair, likely to have been made in France during the early 1950s. The seat and back of this chair are wicker, woven around a steel frame which is fixed to the teak body of t...

Two vintage sets of knives and forks, model number #4244, by the Auböck Workshop, Vienna, circa 1950. The body of the cutlery is made from stainless steel, the handle of each piece is woven with wicker cane. Each set is complete with the original leather holster...

A welcoming four-seater sofa, likely to have been made in Denmark during the late 1940s or early 1950s. This long, yet deceptively slim, sofa has recently been reupholstered in sof...

These chairs were made in 1928 for the Swedish Department Store Nordiska Kompaniet, or NK. The set features two carver chairs and four side-chairs. These chairs are strong examples o...

A beautifully ornate and very charming Victorian correctional chair. Correctional chairs were originally conceived by 18th century surgeon and anat...

Scandinavian modern birch vintage children chair in clear design, which was produced in the 1950s. The birch plywood seat shell is connected w...

Set of hunting chairs and matching table - 1950s Mid-century hunting chairs set of three made in the 1950s in Sweden. The back of the chairs are made of two deer antlers while the l...

beautiful scandinavian chairs from the 1950's in original condition Seven black chairs, two red and one brown leatherette chairs

The DCW chair was originally released in 1946, with Herman Miller taking over the manufacture of the chairs in 1950. This lasted until 1953 when the chairs were taken out of producti...

Set of four dining chairs with a frame in black lacquered metal and seat in curved plywood, attributed to Carlo Ratti and produced by Società Compensati Curvati in the 1950s. In Italy, at the beginning of the XX century, industries of curved solid wood arose under license of Michael Thonet, and through the International Exhibitions the processing of curved wood became more and more widespread. The Expo of the first decade was also attended by the wood manufacturers of Monza, while in 1905 Otto Helzer, in Switzerland, patented wooden structures in curved laminated, whose strength was equivalent to those in steel. The Ratti brothers of Monza took their cue from the solid wood laminate to create furniture that, instead of wooden elements, used sheets of wood. The brothers Ratti, Carlo and Mario, also began to follow the young artistic avant-gardes (cubism, futurism and abstractionism). The mastery of wooden sculpture influenced Carlo in the design and realization of furniture of fine neo-plastic artistic workmanship and decò, receiving honors from the Prince of Piedmont Umberto di Savoia. In 1919, in Milan, the first Lombard Exhibition of Decorative Arts was set up (later to become the Triennale) and the Ratti brothers exhibited their furniture in solid wood but also in curved panel with a new system of curvature, the one in Telo. The canvas system was developed by the Ratti brothers with the help of a friend, Cesare Cantù. They developed an elastomer bag in which the mould was inserted with the panel to be bent and, closing it with clamps, the air inside was removed, thus making the panel adhere to the mould. Carlo and Mario found in the Telo system a means by which they could make objects and furniture in the three spatial directions with large surface curvatures, without limits of thickness and minimum radii of curvature. In 1921 in Stuttgart the first Salone del Mobile was inaugurated and the Fratelli Ratti of Monza made itself known internationally by presenting solid wood furniture and also furniture in load-bearing plywood, flanked by furniture with framed and interchangeable covers. The Expo became meeting places to verify and present the novelties in the furniture and industrialization sector and, with the development of Industrial Design, the first architects joined in the design of the furniture industries. The Ratti Brothers, in the various international and national exhibitions, also presented incredible objects in their realization with the system in Telo. After 1930 Carlo and Mario produced many containers for radio and folding chairs for cinema but in 1939 they divided and in Monza Mario remained who, with his sons Antonio and Angela, formed the Società Compensati Curvi...

Set of five 'Ariston' model chairs designed by Augusto Bozzi and produced by the Lombard company Saporiti from 1957. The chairs have a black painted metal frame and a bent plywood sh...