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Material: Plywood
Brazilian Lounge Chair in Dark Laminated Wood by Móveis Cimo
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Móveis Cimo, lounge chair, laminated wood, Brazil, 1940s Well-sculpted Brazilian lounge chair that deserves a prominent place in one's interior. The construction is based on rounded...
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1940s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

Iconic Lounge Chair by Gerald Summers Reedition in plywood white oiled, 2024
Located in Berlin, DE
Iconic Lounge Chair by Gerald Summers, Design from 1934 - Reedition from 2024 This new edition of Gerald Summers' iconic lounge chair reintroduces the celebrated design from 1933-34...
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2010s German Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Plywood

1970s, Scandinavian design, lounge chair, original condition, brown leather.
Located in Tarm, 82
1970s, Scandinavian design. Lounge chair in original very good condition: no smells, no stains, stable construction. Brown leather, canvas, bent plywood. Manufactured by Norwegian or...
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1970s Norwegian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Canvas, Bentwood, Plywood

Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno 'Canada' Lounge Chair in Paisley Fabric and Wood
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Osvaldo Borsani, Valeria Borsani, and Marco Fantoni for Tecno, 'Canada' lounge chair, model 'T110', fabric, lacquered plywood, Italy, 1966 The Canada series was developed from some ...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Plywood

Pair of Chairs for the Modern Home
Located in Greenwich, CT
Pair of easy chairs having a sleek, streamlined design of beautifully clever simplicity made for the modern British home, circa 1960. In bent plywood featuring continuous one piece a...
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1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

Afra & Tobia Scarpa "925" Easy Chairs for Cassina, 1966, Set of 2
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Afra & Tobia Scarpa "925" easy chairs for Cassina, plywood and hazelnut leather, Italy, 1966, set of two. In 1966 Afra & Tobia Scarpa designed the "925" chair, realized in walnut an...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Plywood

Joe Colombo Plywood 4801 Lounge Chair No 42, Kartell, 1960s
Located in Echt, NL
Early 4801 Lounge Chair by Joe Colombo in very good condition Number 42 This chair is formed from 3 pieces of plywood which lock together without a...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

Jaime Hayon, Contemporary, Playwood Walnut Granet Upholstery Lounger Armchair
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Armchair designed by Jaime Hayon in 2010. Manufactured by BD in Spain. It has an elegance carried throughout the series, the comfort that this typology requires in an armchair an...
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2010s Spanish Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Aluminum

Birch Plywood Lounge Chair by Hans Peter Weidmann for Artek 1990s
Located in London, GB
A sculptural birch plywood lounge chair designed by Hans Peter Weidmann for Artek, Finland, 1990. This distinctive piece, sometimes referred to as the Nandin chair, reflects Artek’s ...
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1990s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Plywood

Alvar Aalto, Paimio 41 Lounge Chair in Black and Birch, Artek 1960s
Located in Helsinki, FI
The famous Paimio lounge chair model 41, designed by Alvar Aalto for the Paimion Parantola. Manufactured by Artek in the 1960s, stamped "Artek, Aal...
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1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Plywood

Jaime Hayon, Contemporary, Plywood Orange Leather Low Lounger Armchair
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Armchair structure base in cast aluminium. Footstool structure base in tubular steel and painted. Seat, backrest and footstool are in plywood with exteriors in walnut nature effect ...
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2010s Spanish Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Aluminum

Modernist Classic Marcel Breuer Chaise Longue "Isokon" 1970s
Located in Renens, CH
The Isokon Chaise Longue was originally created by Marcel Breuer during the late 1930s from his refuge in England, for the British firm Isokon. It was later produced under license by...
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1970s Swiss Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

C. 1948 Herman Miller and Evans Eames LCW Lounge Chair in Calico Ash
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an Eames LCW Lounge Chair in Calico Ash Plwood, initially designed by Ray and Charles Eames in 1946. This example dates to ca. 1948. The chair measures 25 inches long, 22 ...
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1940s American Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Calico, Ash, Plastic, Rubber, Plywood

Modern Contemporary Edgar Reuter for Coalesse Khaki Pasio Lounge Chairs, a Pair
Located in Secaucus, NJ
The Pasio lounge is well constructed with high-end quality materials and craftsmanship, Very comfortable and the contemporary modern design make this lounge appropriate for residential and commercial use, Please note the price listed is for a Pair "Two chairs" Specifications: Upholstery: Multiple densities of polyurethane foam and polyester fiber on seat, back and arms Fabric: 100% Polyester, Color Beige Khaki and Brown Solid maple legs dark mahogany finish with non-adjustable glides Frame: Plywood tab construction Model: Pasio Lounge # 263 Designed by: Edgar Reuter...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Polyester, Maple, Plywood

Post modern lounge chair brown leather bentwood Beech thin frame made in Germany
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Post modern lounge chair brown leather bentwood Beech plywood frame made in Germany. Beautiful chair with bent plywood blonde frame and dark brown leather cushions lounge chair. Mini...
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1980s German Post-Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Beech, Bentwood, Plywood

Contemporary Low Chair 'Gropius CS1' by NOOM, Blue
Located in Paris, IDF
Low chair GROPIUS CS1 by Noom Model : Category Savoy FR - Cobalt H741 Designer: Kateryna Sokolova Dimensions: Height: 71 cm / 27,95 in Wid...
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21st Century and Contemporary Ukrainian Organic Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Foam, Wood, Plywood, Wool

Two 1950s British "Linden" Lounge Chairs in Teak by G A Jenkins
By Alvar Aalto, Packet Furniture
Located in Shepperton, Surrey
A pair of 1950s "Linden" armchairs by British designer G A Jenkins for Packet Furniture. The bentply frames are veneered in warm teak. They have been reupholstered with beautifully ...
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Teak, Plywood

Contemporary Low Chair 'Hello' by Denys Sokolov x Noom, Orange
By NOOM
Located in Paris, IDF
Low Chair Hello Designer: Denys Sokolov Materials: wood, plywood, foam rubber, injection-molded soft foam, metal, textile Dimensions: Height: 73 cm Width: 78 cm Depth: 85 cm Seat height: 43 cm The HELLO chair...
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21st Century and Contemporary Ukrainian Organic Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Metal

Charles & Ray Eames, Lounge Chair and Ottoman '2'
Located in Napa, CA
The Lounge Chair and Ottoman is an iconic furniture design created by Charles and Ray Eames. It is widely regarded as one of the most significant and enduring pieces of modern furnit...
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1960s North American Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

AX Lounge Chair, Peter Hvidt and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen for Fritz Hansen, 1960s
Located in Vorst, BE
Lounge chair made of a combination of plywood and beech wood. Walnut veneer is used for the seat and backrest. Designed in 1947 by Peter Hvidt & Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen, the mileston...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood, Birch, Teak

Modern Low Chair 'Gropius CS1' by Noom, Dark Green
Located in Paris, IDF
Low chair GROPIUS CS1 by Noom Model : Category Savoy FR - Garden 509 Designer: Kateryna Sokolova Dimensions: Height: 71 cm / 27,95 in Width: 75 cm / 29,53 in Depth: 75 cm / 29,53 in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Ukrainian Organic Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Wool, Foam, Wood, Plywood

Plywood Mid Century Modern Kone Lounge Chairs by Australian designer Roger McLay
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare Kone lounge chairs, designed by Australian industrial designer Roger McLay. The seat is formed from a single sheet of plywood, bent into a sleek cone ...
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Mid-20th Century Australian Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

Mollusk bench
Located in Denpasar, ID
A sculptural double-sided bench designed for both functionality and aesthetics. Crafted from 18mm plywood and reinforced with metal rods, its fluid, dynamic form allows seating from ...
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2010s Futurist Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

Mollusk bench
Mollusk bench
$13,000 / item
Alvar Aalto, Birch Plywood Cantilever Chair, Model 31, Huonekalu-ja, Finland
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Alvar Aalto model 31 chair of moulded birch plywood, cantilevered one-piece seat and back suspended from bent supports painted black. Designed in...
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1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Plywood

Vintage Brazilian Armchair with Cognac Color Leather Seat Cushion, 70s
Located in Oirlo, LI
Very beautiful and special lounge chair attributed to Brazil 1970. The chair is made of curved brown plywood and has a cow leather seat supported by a firm back and with brown leather pillow...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Plywood

Grey Leather Lounge Chair by Ingmar Relling for Westnofa, Norway 1960s
Located in DE MEERN, NL
Very rare GREY leather lounge chair with black lacquered plywood and canvas by Ingmar Relling for Westnova, Norway 1960s If you're looking...
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1960s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Canvas, Plywood, Lacquer

Sculptural Lounge Chair with Ottoman
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Armchair with ottoman, plywood, canvas, Czech Republic, 1950s. This wavy, elegant armchair with a high back is executed in a bent beech frame. The lounge chair and ottoman are uphol...
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1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Canvas, Plywood

Afra & Tobia Scarpa "925" Easy Chair for Cassina, 1966
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Afra & Tobia Scarpa "925" easy chair for Cassina, plywood and black leather, Italy, 1966. In 1966 Afra & Tobia Scarpa designed the "925" chair, realized in walnut and leather. The armchair is inspired by a sketch made in 1943...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Plywood

Eames Herman Miller LCW Lounge Chairs in British Forest Green Wool, Pair
Located in Stamford, CT
The celebrated portfolio of Charles and Ray Eames continues to inspire designers to this day. Early in their mission to create furniture for the masses, the Eameses explored innovati...
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2010s American Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Wool, Walnut, Plywood

George Mulhauser Bent Plywood Mid Century Lounge Chair and Ottoman
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1960's molded plywood lounge chair and ottoman by George Mulhauser. The chair features stylish wing-like arms, tufted cream uber soft colored vinyl, and a swivel base. The chair wa...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Chrome

Charles & Ray Eames Early LCW Lounge Chair for Herman Miller, 1951
Located in Buffalo, NY
Iconic Charles & Ray Eames LCW lounge chair in Birch plywood. Early Herman Miller production from the fifties (5-2-4 screw configuration), just after Herman Miller took over producti...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Plywood

Eames LCW Plywood Lounge Chairs in Walnut & Herman Miller Blue Fabric, Pair
Located in Stamford, CT
The celebrated portfolio of Charles and Ray Eames continues to inspire designers to this day. Early in their mission to create furniture for the masses, the Eameses explored innovati...
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2010s American Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Upholstery, Walnut, Plywood

Modern EOOS for Coalesse Joel Blue Swivel Lounge Chairs by Walter Knoll, a Pair
Located in Secaucus, NJ
Fabulous pair of Joel blue swivel lounge chairs by Walter Knoll. The modern beauty and smart design of the Joel lounge chair is a new take o...
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2010s American Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Steel, Chrome

Beautiful masterpiece of Gerald Summers Reedition in birch plywood, 2024
Located in Berlin, DE
Iconic Lounge Chair by Gerald Summers, Design from 1934 - Reedition from 2024 This new edition of Gerald Summers' iconic lounge chair reintroduces the celebrated design from 1933-34...
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2010s German Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Plywood

Pair of F551 'Big Tulip" Lounge Chairs by Pierre Paulin Artifort New Upholstery
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
A stunning pair of F551 'Big Tulip" lounge chairs by French designer Pierre Paulin for Dutch manufacturer Artifort This is the second series of F551 chair to be recognized by the ...
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1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Steel, Chrome

Pair First Edition "Big Tulip" Lounge Chairs F551 by Pierre Paulin Artifort 1959
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Very rare pair of the first edition of the "Big Tulip" chair, model F551 Just Married! Designed by French designer Pierre Paulin in 1959 for Artifort, The Netherlands Reuph...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Steel, Nickel

Leandre Poisson Modernist Bent Plywood Upholstered Ottoman in Schumacher Velvet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Modernist bent ottoman with velvet cushion, designed by architect Leandre Poisson. The ottoman is comprised of a curved plywood base finished with two charming handles. We added a loose round...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Velvet, Cane, Plywood

Leather Reclining Chair & Ottoman by Thomasville
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Danish modern design adjustable recliner chair with ottoman by Thomasville. the ottoman is 20x20x19.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Bentwood, Plywood

Jakob Müller Armchair with Adjustable Seat " Ronco "
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
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1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Ash, Plywood

Exceptionally Rare Set of 2 Lounge Chairs by Arnold Bode
Located in Munich, DE
Only a handful of tectaform chairs showed up on auctions the last 10 years, but this version with arms is quite unknown. We own the only before known chair...... It´s a very rare ver...
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1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Plywood

Rare Pair of "Kleinhans" Chairs, circa 1939 Charles Eames/Eero Saarinen
Located in Buffalo, NY
Iconic "Kleinhans" armchairs, designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, early chair, collaboration of two modern masters, designed for the Mary Seaton room at Kleinhans music hall...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Plywood

Pepino Chair by Owl
Located in Geneve, CH
Pepino chair by Owl Dimensions: L 112 x W 70 x H 60 cm Materials: Plywood base, upholstered La Pepino is a collection of only seating, which consist...
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2010s Spanish Post-Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Upholstery, Plywood

Pepino Chair by Owl
Pepino Chair by Owl
$4,804 / item
Zeca Armchair by José Zanine Caldas, Fábrica De Móveis Z, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Original Condition
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1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood, Faux Leather

Finnish Design Classic: Pulkka Lounge Chair by Ilmari Laippainen for Asko, 1960s
Located in Renens, CH
Bentwood Pulkka Lounge Chair by Ilmari Laippainen for Asko, Finland from the 1960s. Ilmari Laippainen (1922-2004) was a renowned Finnish architect and designer known for his funct...
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1960s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood

Mid Century Danish Modern Penguin Lounge Chair by Kofod - Larsen / Selig c 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Iconic Penguin lounge chair, made by Kofod - Larsen, distributed by Selig. The chair features a wrought iron frame, newly upholstered pad seat ( Boucle ) and a sculpted plywood backr...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Wrought Iron

Rare Ernest Race 'Neptune' lounge chair. c1953 England
Located in London, GB
An early Ernest Race 'Neptune' chair. Beech plywood with the early brass fittings and webbing. Folds to an incredible 12cm Structurally sound with a lovely patina
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1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Beech, Plywood

1956, Ray & Charles Eames Lounge Chair, Rare First Edition 1956 in Black Leather
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
This item 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 Beach...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Metal

Rare "Kleinhans" Chair, circa 1939 Charles Eames/Eero Saarinen
Located in Buffalo, NY
Iconic "Kleinhans" armchair, designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, early chair, collaboration of two modern masters, designed for the Mary Seaton room at Kleinhans music hall...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Birch, Fabric, Plywood

Sculptural Lounge Chairs with Ottomans in Canvas and Plywood
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Armchairs with ottomans, plywood, canvas, Czech Republic, 1950s. This wavy, elegant armchair with a high back is executed in a bent beech framework. The lounge chair and ottoman are...
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1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Canvas, Plywood

2 Midcentury Organic Modern / Sculptures/ Lounge Chairs, Frederick Kiesler, 1947
Located in New York, NY
Two Rare Organic Modernist Sculptures that also function as lounge chairs and attributed to the European-American artist, sculptor and designer, Frederick Kiesler (born in Ukraine, 1890-1965). The pieces are hand crafted and composed of thick, layered and molded oak plywood and then hand lacquered. The works are important and signify the development of post-war design into abstract biomorphic sculptural forms. They occupy a curving, organic space and their negative space conveys transparency, lightness and airiness.They represent the continuity between art and life, movement and sculpture. The artist, Frederick Kiesler designed variant sculptural "Multi-Use Chairs" for Robert Motherwell's home in Provincetown circa 1947. The pieces are priced and sold individually but can also be purchased as a pair. An accompanying sculptural, organic form bench...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood, Oak

Alain Gaubert Sculptural Low Chair, circa 1950s, France
Located in Tokyo, Tokyo
Rare and unique sculptural low chair in black designed by French designer Alain Gaubert. The chair can be used in 3 different positions; to sit on the chair normally as a low chair,...
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1950s French Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Beech, Plywood

Finnish Design Pulkka Lounge Chairs by Ilmari Laippainen for Asko, 1960s, Set
Located in Renens, CH
Bentwood Pulkka Lounge Chairs by Ilmari Laippainen for Asko, Finland from the 1960s. Ilmari Laippainen (1922-2004) was a renowned Finnish architect and designer known for his functi...
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1960s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Beech, Plywood

Afra & Tobia Scarpa "925" Easy Chairs for Cassina, 1966, Set of 2
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Afra & Tobia Scarpa "925" easy chairs for Cassina, plywood and black leather, Italy, 1966, set of two. In 1966 Afra & Tobia Scarpa designed the "925" chair, realized in walnut and l...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Leather, Plywood

Pair of White Lacquer Chrome Bases Scoop Lounge Chairs Mid Century Modern
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Pair of very nice Mid-Century Modern chrome bases, white lacquer shell body, ribbed upholstery lounge chairs.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Chrome

Pair of Dordrecht Chairs by Wim Van Gelderen for Spectrum, the Netherlands 1950s
By 't Spectrum, Wim van Gelderen
Located in Aartselaar, BE
Dordrecht Chairs by Wim van Gelderen for 't Spectrum, the Netherlands. Naive, modernist, vintage armchairs in a light-colored oak. They pair beautifully with the "elephant grey" textured fabric. It's rare to find a pair of these Dutch modernist plywood chairs that were produced in the early 1950s. The design of these chairs is very elegant and does not show that they are a design of the 50s, since they look a lot more modern than they really are. The perfect neutral, yet sculptural chair for any kind of vintage, modernist of contemporary project. In excellent original condition. Newly upholstered by a professional craftsman in high-quality, textured velours fabric. Check out our Daddy Deco...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Plywood

Jose Zanine Caldas Pair of Mid-century modern BrazilianArmchairs Model "H"
Located in Barcelona, ES
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...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Plywood, Velvet

Italian Lounge Chairs in White Plywood and Black Upholstery
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Pair of lounge chairs, plywood, fabric, Italy, 1970s Pair of armchairs composed of white lacquered wood. The chairs are build up from a square base with rounded edges and three larg...
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1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Metal

1970s Set of 5 Lounge Seating from Frank Lloyd Wright Stuart Richardson House
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an important set of five (please inquire if interested, as we may have a sixth) Custom Angular Plywood Chairs, initially conceived by Frank Lloyd Wright to grace the interior...
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1970s American Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Metal

“No. 55” Lounge Chair by Arne Hovmand-Olsen, Denmark, 1955
Located in Utrecht, NL
The shape of this “No. 55” shell chair indicates the design of an architect. Indeed, Arne Hovmand-Olsen was a prolific Danish designer and architect, whose designs centered around th...
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1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Plywood

Pair of Artifort F165 Lounge Chairs with New Ploeg Wool Upholstery, circa 1955
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Pair of beautiful restored lounge chairs by Artifort The Netherlands produced, circa 1955. These top quality lounge chairs have been fully restored with respect to the original wa...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plywood Lounge Chairs

Materials

Steel, Nickel

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