Plywood Side Chairs

A pair of P31 three-legged bent plywood chairs with ebonized metal bases. Manufactured by Tecno (both bear makers mark).

A beautiful side chair by Italian designer A. Sibau Lovely sculptural design in solid Birch wood We upholstered this chair with animal friendly hand felted Islandic Sheep...

Wonderful pair of side chairs designed by Hanno Von Gustedt for Thonet from the late 1950s. Essentially a rare, early version of the S636 with bent-plywood seats and backs. Great loo...

Iconic set of 3 vintage midcentury Norman Cherner chairs. They have normal age appropriate wear as they should given their age, almost 65 years old! Classic Modernist design. Extreme...

Vintage Puzzle chair by David Kawecki. In great condition with just a few small chips on the legs. Black and natural color combination. Solid construction and a great conversation pi...

Pair of chairs designed by Rudolf Wolf for Elsrijk, re-upholstered in black leather. Netherlands, mid-20th century. The chairs have a simple minimal design with the bent metal rod b...

Very rare and collectible Eames & Saarinen "Organic Chair", winner of Organic Design competition at MoMa. First manufacture from the early 1950s, laminated and moulded wooden seat shell, foam upholstery which was covered with textile fabric designed by Marli Ehrman. A special patented joint holds the wood legs firmly to the shell. Originals of the organic from the 1950s are collector's items and exhibited in museums. They are also traded on art auctions, where one was sold in 1999 for $ 120.000 in bed condition. (take a look at the picture) Designed for the “Organic Design” competition by Museum of Modern Art in New York on 1 October 1940. The competition was initiated by Elliot Noyes, the first curator of this newly installed department. The goal was to motivate architects and companies to develop and market modern furniture for a modern lifestyle. Their participation in the MoMa competition was the first collaboration between Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, and they won first prize. Besides the chair, their submission comprised a high-back chair, an armchair, a sofa, and office furniture, which they presented in the form of several drawings. No true-to-scale prototypes were produced for the competition. Production of the “Organic Chair” only started in 1950 and was terminated after a short while. The original design had envisaged aluminium legs. This idea was discarded because the material was scarce during the war, and wood was used instead. New technologies were also involved in the production of the seat shell, which was composed of strips of veneer and was to ensure utmost stability and comfort while using as little material as possible and being extremely lightweight. Later on, Eames based...

Empire chair in molded plywood with laminated finish in the "Grandmother" pattern. Designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for Knoll, USA, 1984.

Verner Panton. S-chair, model 275. Designed 1956, this example manufactured ca. 1965. Manufactured by A. Sommer, Germany. Retailed by Thonet, Frankenberg, Germany. Aniline-dyed beech...

Nathan Lerner, whose parents were Ukrainian emigrants, was born in Chicago in 1913. At the age of nine he attended painting courses at the Art Institute,...

Rare and beautiful color setting of a SB02 dining chair or side chair, designed in 1952 by Cees Braakman, manufactured in the Netherlands by UMS Pastoe. When Bra...

Pair of plywood chairs with riveted seats.