Plywood Lounge Chairs

One of two "interlocking" lounge chairs designed by Joe Colombo for Kartell, Italy, manufactured in midcentury. Joe Colombo's iconic 4801 armchair was designed in 1963-1964. A modern chair with striking visual appeal by the master of Italian Space Age design. A limited number of wood 4801 chairs...

Mid century lounge chair This is the iconic armchair named "Bratislava" as it was originally produced for the airport in Bratislava city. Designed by Ludvik Volak, this armchair w...

Iconic pair of Eames for Herman Miller LCM's in later orange and black paint finish. These chairs are structurally sound and sturdy, both have a later, but not new, orange paint surf...

Special Hans Brattrud lounge chair. Designed in the 1960s. This Scandia chair for Hove Mobler is executed in rosewood. It has a chrome swivel base and can be called exclusive becaus...

This vintage 1940s-1950s Eames LCM chair that is unrestored, the back rubber mounts have been drilled through to connect the back rest. This is a fully functional chair as shown. We...

Cassina Ciprea Lounge chairs by Tobia and Afra Scarpa, 1970s, Italy Beautiful lounge chairs made in Italy by Tobia and Afra Scarpa for Cassina in Italy...

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...

Pair of Poul Kjaerholm PK27 easy chairs with leather upholstery, 1950s.

Stylish and extremely comfortable lounge / rocking chair made in the 1970s. The chair has a sophisticated plywood bended frame with a deep and warm grain rosewood veneer. The newly,...

Rare, early Alvar Aalto model 31/42 cantilevered armchairs, Finland, 1930s, designed and produced in the 1930s. Painted birch-veneered bent plywoo...

Rare 1950s plywood armchair by Gu¨nter Renkel for Rego, Germany. The dark blue original upholstery is in great condition as can be seen in the images. The chair is in it's original...

One of the nicest examples I ve owned in quite a while, stunning figured birch plywood, circa early 1946-1947, L C W (Lounge chair wood) designed by Charles and Ray Eames, Manufactur...

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...

only a handful of tectaform chairs showed up on auctions the last 10 years, but this version with arms is previous unknown. it´s a very rare version of model no. 8xx. we are very pro...

Iconic vintage folding Rex lounge chair by Niko Kralj (1920-2013). Niko Kralj is one of the central figures of Slovenian post-war industrial design. T...

Modernist Mid-Century Modern influence rocking chair in green suede by Ligne Roset. Made in France. Stunning quality craftsmanship.

Early single Niko Kralj Stol Rex blonde beech bentwood folding chair. Designed in 1952. Featuring molded beech plywood with contoured back, ergonomic, curved and wide seat and cutout...

This chair 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 Beac...

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...

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...

This chair 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 Beac...

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...

Hee Welling 'About A Chair' lounge chair for Hay. Plywood four-legged frame with black-painted oak veneer.  

Iconic vintage folding Rex lounge chair by Niko Kralj (1920-2013). Niko Kralj is one of the central figures of Slovenian post-war industrial design. This chair is in the perman...

Pair of Modernist "Jetson's" plywood and chrome armchairs, Classic Mid-Century design. Plywood seats and backs, retain original plaid wool seats. Excellent original condition.

Vintage laminated bent plywood fish and net lounge chair by Alan Siegel (American b. 1938). Signed "Siegel 1985," solid laminated bent plywood frame, ...

Pair of very nice Mid-Century Modern chrome bases, white lacquer shell body, ribbed upholstery lounge chairs.

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...

The first generation Eames DCM (Dining Chair Metal) chairs represent a landmark in furniture design, embodying the innovative spirit of mid-century modernism. Originally produced by ...

The Eames DCM (Dining Chair Metal) is a timeless piece of furniture design that epitomizes the marriage of form and function. Created by the legendary husband-and-wife design duo, Ch...

Beautiful and extremely comfortable late 1960's early 1970's lounge chair designed by Giuseppe Munari for Poltrone Munari. Original upholstery in great condition. The chair will be shipped insured overseas in a custom made wooden crate. Cost of transport to the US is crate included. Italy is a world trendsetter, and has produced some of the greatest furniture designers in the world, such as Achille Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, and Ettore Sottsass. Italian interior design in the 1900s was particularly well-known and grew to the heights of class and sophistication. At first, in the early 1900s, Italian furniture designers struggled to create an equal balance between classical elegance and modern creativity, and at first, Italian interior design in the 1910s and 1920s was very similar to that of French art deco styles, using exotic materials and creating sumptuous furniture. However, Italian art deco reached its pinnacle under Gio Ponti, who made his designs sophisticated, elegant, stylish and refined, but also modern, exotic and creative. In 1926, a new style of furnishing emerged in Italy, known as "Razionalismo", or "Rationalism". The most successful and famous of the Rationalists were the Gruppo 7...

Lounge chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Vitra, 1998. Marked with label. Rare bright red version that was only produced duri...

This is a great example of a Set of three Ray Komai Lounge Chairs. These chairs were shown in the US Pavillon on the Milan Triennale in 1951. Produced by JG Furniture in the late 194...

Swivel and tilt “Mrs. Chair” and ottoman designed by George Mulhauser for Plycraft, c. 1960s. Constructed of a molded walnut ply shell and a wood wrapped base. This smaller scale var...

Iconic LCW lounge chair in ash plywood. The veneer and chair is in good condition with nice patina and wood grain. Light signs of wear and slight discoloration backrest. The chair is...

Set of 2 X-base lounge chairs, 1970s. Unknown designer, but a great design. Completely restored vintage chairs. Black satin laquered wooden X-b...

Marcel Breuer (1902 - 1981), Long Chair, designed 1935-1936, in laminated birch plywood This is an early example of the model produced by Isokon Furniture Company Ltd, London. Lat...

Lounge chair. Charles & ray eames, 1956 for herman miller. The chair is composed of three curved plywood shells covered with veneer: the headrest, the backrest and the seat. T...

An original Mario Marenco easy chair for Arflex dating from the 1970s. Featuring, squidgy, oversized cushions which are cleverly secured to appear a...

Rare and collectable Charles and Ray Eames 670 and 671 lounge chair and ottoman. To commemorate the 50th anniversary (1956-2006) of the design of the...

A pair of "interlocking" lounge chairs by Joe Colombo for Kartell, Italy, manufactured in Mid-Century. Joe Colombo's iconic 4801 armchair was designed in 1963/1964. A modern chair with striking visual appeal by the master of Italian Space Age design. A limited number of wood 4801 chairs...