Henry Glass Prototype "Sling-Line" Folding Chaise

Prototype folding chair of tubular metal with plastic ball caps and its original yellow mesh fabric sling dating to the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. By architect and designer Henry Glass, an Austrian emigre who worked with Gilbert Rohde in New York City in the late 1930’s and then studied in Chicago with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Glass was ahead of his time in his concerns with pre-fabrication, modularity, affordability, and ecological responsibility. He was known for his knock-down furniture designs–chairs and tables that folded, nested, or stacked for easy mobility and space-saving flexibility. Austere and visually interesting, these designs utilized inexpensive materials such as plywood, masonite, tubular steel, and canvas. The present piece, never produced, channels Gerrit Rietveld in proposing a low-cost mid-century outdoor chair...

Up-and-down "Versitable" by Tepper-Meyer Associates of San Francisco, produced by Fred Meyer circa 1954. The two-position design can function as a dining or writing table in the high...

Rare French design 1950 Foldable lounge chair. Designed by Andre Monpoix for Meubles TV. The combination of black metal with yellow plastic wires makes this a mid-century modern sta...

Feho Germany, foldable chaise lounge, stained solid beech, metal, Germany, 1930s A rare-to-find foldable chaise lounge from the 1930s. Adjustabl...