239 results for "rationalist"

Rationalist Tubular stool 1930s Seat upholstered in faux fur.

Gio Ponti Style Rationalist Daybed, wood and velvet, Italy, 1948 This daybed in the style of Gio Ponti is built on two matching wooden end frames, each formed as an open square latt...

Italian Rationalist adjustable wooden lounge chair, Italy 1940s Measurements when opened 125 x 66 x H 70 cm.

Rare Italian rationalist daybed produced by Columbus in the 1930s, exemplifying the purity of line and structural clarity that defined early Italian modernism. The piece features a ...

This exceptional set, composed of a table and four chairs, is a prime example of Italian Rationalist design from the Interwar period (circa 1930s-1940s). Made in Italy, this set feat...

Set of six chairs in solid pine wood frame and backrest, the seat is in black synthetic fabric, manufactured in Spain in 60s, unknown designer. The rationalist lines of the frame pr...

Pair Rationalist beechwood sturdy & comfortable armchairs, Czech, circa 1940’s.

Stunning and elegant Rationalist Bauhaus side chair. Striking Dutch design from the 1930s. Chrome tubular steel frame with original black lacquered back and seat. This wonderful Rati...

Pair of Rationalist Rattan and Wood Folding Chairs – France, Circa 1960 Embrace timeless design with this elegant pair of rationalist folding chairs, manufactured in France circa 19...

Rationalist daybed In the style of Paolo Buffa, wood and fabric, Italy, 1940s This daybed, in the style of Paolo Buffa, reflects the refined balance characteristic of Milanese desig...

Pair of Italian Rationalist Club Chairs designed by Giuseppe Pagano, Italy, circa 1930s. This exceptional pair of club chairs perfectly embodies Giuseppe Pagano's vision of modern I...

Pair of Italian Rationalist wooden armchairs dating to the 1930s, characterised by their rigorous geometry and restrained architectural composition. Each chair is constructed around ...

A beautifully constructed modernist armchair by L.O.V. Oosterbeek (Labor Omnia Vincit), dating from the 1920s and documented in the original factory catalogue. This design represents...

Rare rationalist chair attr. Gino Levi Montalcini designed in 1940, Italy Good vintage condition. Dimensions: 26" x 26" x 34.6" / seat height ...

This captivating curved iron chair, painted white, is a true masterpiece of 1930s Rationalist design, born from the skilled craftsmanship of French ...

Giuseppe Pagano (1896-1945) Pair of Rationalist armchairs designed in 1938 for the interiors of Bocconi University in Milan. In addition to designing the institute's furnishings, P...

Rare rationalist lounge chair Italy, 1927.

Mid-Century Rationalist Wooden Armchairs – Circa 1960, France Step into the elegance of mid-century design with this stunning pair of armchairs, a true embodiment of the Rationalist...

Chair model D61, designed by El Lissitzky in 1930. Manufactured in Germany by Tecta, circa 1970. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a ...

Pair of Spanish rationalist armchairs with solid oak frame & leather straps. Spain 1960's.

A Rare, Elegant and Classic Modernist Pair of Hand-made Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs / Lounge Chairs in Enameled Wood, attributed to the Italian architect, Giuseppe. Terragni...

"Bocconi" armchair and stool design Giuseppe Pagano Gino Maggioni 1938 Plywood and rope seat Excellent condition Measure: Armchair: H 65 x W 60 x D 65 cm...

Bauhaus chair by unknown designer, probably Gispen. Manufactured in Holland, circa 1930. In good original condition with minor wear consistent with age and use.

Mid-Century Modern wood and rattan French Rationalist chairs, by unknown designer. Manufactured in France, circa 1950. In original condition with minor wear consistent of age a...

Oak dining chairs, Dutch Art Deco era, Hague school, 1928. Minimalist and modern for its time. Truly an Avant-Garde item. Certainly an inspiration for later Scandinavian Modern desig...

Set of four rustic wood French chairs. Embrace the rustic charm of this set of four mid-century modern rationalist wood chairs, manufactured in France circa 1940. These chairs showc...

A set of four Italian Rationalist wooden chairs dating from the 1940s, in the taste of architect and designer Giuseppe Pagano. Defined by their restrained construction and strong geo...

Pair of armchairs, ochre colored velvet, wood, Italy, 1940s Striking pair of Italian armchairs from the 1940s, distinguished by their bold architectural lines and refined proportion...

Axel Einar Hjorth for Nordiska Kompaniet, lounge chair from the 'Typenko' series, model '36100', reupholstered in wool “Tyrone Rouge” by Pierre Frey, and suede, nickel-plated brass, ...

Attributed to Rene Gabriel, lounge chair, stained beech, linen fabric "Arsene" by Pierre Frey, France, circa 1945 This armchair is attributed to the French artist René Gabriel, kno...

Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig and Gino Levi Montalcini for F.I.P., lounge chair, lacquered buxus, reupholstered in “Bold Powder” mohair by Pierre Frey, Italy, 1928-1929 The Piece at...

Mid-Century daybed by Dutch manufacturer Auping, in the style of Friso Kramer. The white enameled metal frame features gently curved legs and a low, horizontal profile. Inset green s...

Ernesto Valabrega for Vittorio Valabrega, set of six dining chairs, oak, beech, fabric, Italy, 1930s Designed by Ernesto Valabrega for Vittorio Valabrega in the 1930s, this set of d...

Cassina LC3 “3 Fauteuil Grand Confort, Grand Modèle, Durable, 60” Limited Edition Armchair by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Charlotte Perriand Created to celebrate the 60th a...

Marvellous midcentury lounge chair with tubular steel frames and white leather seat. The "Lens" model was designed by Giovanni Offredi and produced for Saporiti in 1968. This chair has a white leather seat with original upholstery and a fantastic tubular structure, available as it is or can be restored. A wonderful space-age design piece, fused with sumptuous and elegant materials. A magnificent and iconic piece that will be perfect for a midcentury-style living room or study and a must-have for vintage leather seats lovers. The condition of the chair has some normal signs of use and vintage condition, as shown in the photos. Giovanni Offredi (born 1927, Milan–died 2007, Milan) was a prominent Italian furniture and product designer of the second half of the 20th century. As opposed to most of the other Italian furniture designers of his time, Giovanni Offredi was not an architect, nor did he start designing early in his professional career. Instead, Offredi partially fits the career path of some of the talented contemporary designers who pursue product design outside of formal education in architecture. The earliest furniture design work known by Giovanni Offredi consists of exemplary furnishings made specifically for some of the wealthy families in Milan. Such is the case of the works done by Offredi for Casa C., in 1960, in Gorgonzola, a small town 14 miles from Milan. These works were designed with a surprisingly minimal simplicity and elegance, and they also clearly display a hallmark of his design work with the use of angular lines and exposed metal or wood frames—not unlike some of the modern Scandinavian design of the time. In the late 1960s, Giovanni Offredi met Sergio Saporiti, the owner of Italian design shop and furniture maker Saporiti, and in 1970, Offredi formalized a partnership with the furniture maker. This partnership would be long and successful and resulted in many furniture designs of distinct precision that were clearly modern and innovative and that went on to enjoy considerable commercial success. The most prominent furniture designs that Offredi made for Saporiti include the Paracarro table...

Wood and metal daybed with brass elements, upholstered mattress and cushions, produced by Rima, designed by Gastone Rinaldi, 1950s The headboard and footboard of this daybed, produc...

Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1918. Relaunched in 1973. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. A sculptural seat with a pure and rationalist form, this chair became an authenti...

A rare and early, documented dining chair by Bastiaan Johannes “Bas” van Pelt (1900–1945) - Dutch interior architect, furniture designer, entrepreneur and noted member of the resista...

Cassina LC2 “Petit Modèle, Durable, 60” Limited Edition Armchair Created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cassina’s production of the Le Corbusier®, Pierre Jeanneret® and Charlo...

Kazuhide Takahama Gaga Chair For Cassina A light, airy stackable metal chair. Gaja is a contemporary piece of furniture reminiscent of the pure classicism of Rationalism, to which the chair lays legitimate claim, thanks to its streamlined, practical nature. Designed by Japanese architect Kazuhide Takahama, the Gaja design chair was originally crafted for a small local restaurant and is characterized by its open structure with frame in arc-welded, chrome-plated tubular steel. STRUCTURE Frame in bent tubular metal with chrome or painted finish. PADDING Flexible polyurethane foam. UPHOLSTERY Fabric or leather. Light, slender and stackable, the Gaja chair...

Cassina LC1 “Fauteuil Dossier Basculant, 60” Limited Edition Chair Created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cassina’s production of the Le Corbusier®, Pierre Jeanneret® and Char...

Gorgeous mid-century round bamboo & wicker stool. Franco Albini designed this piece in Italy during the 1960s. The pouf features a beautiful combination of curved bamboo, rattan a...

Set of ten (10) Göteborg chairs produced by Cassina Italy 1980. Originally designed designed by Erik Gunnar in 1934-1937. Cognac brown leather, all chairs have a producer stamp and c...

Ignazio Gardella for Azucena, set of ten armchairs, model P10 / R63, faux leather, nickel-plated brass, Italy, design 1963 A rare set of armchairs by Milanese architect Ignazio Gard...

This incredibly comfortable early year collectors example of the Le Corbusier for Cassina 'LC2' club chair (authentic signed example, see pics) in gorgeous thick Italian black leathe...

A refined Italian bench attributed to Guglielmo Ulrich, dating to the 1940s, embodying the designer’s distinctive balance between structural lightness and sculptural elegance. The f...

Cassina LC3 “3 Fauteuil Grand Confort, Grand Modèle, Durable, 60” Limited Edition Armchair by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Charlotte Perriand Created to celebrate the 60th anniv...

René Gabriel, armchair, beech, canvas webbing, France, design ca. 1934 A frontrunner of French design, René Gabriel (1899-1950) started his career as an interior decorator during th...

This incredibly comfortable Le Corbusier for Cassina 'LC2' three-seat sofa (authentic signed and earlier year production example with low number production number stamped on the fram...

Exceptional and rare Italian Modernist two-seat bench from the 1940s, attributed to Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig. This highly architectural piece combines a slender black-finished me...

A pair of black-painted wood, green mohair and tubular metal lounge chairs or club chairs in the rationalist style, likely designed and produced in Italy, c. 1930s. In good vintage ...

Cassina LC2 “Petit Modèle, Durable, 60” Limited Edition Armchair Created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cassina’s production of the Le Corbusier®, Pierre Jeanneret® and Charlo...

A rare pair of side /slipper chairs designed by Ernesto La Padula from the Italian Art Deco period, circa 1930. The design can also be described as ...

Set of eight dining chairs, ash, Italy, 1970s This set of dining chairs, crafted in solid ash during 1970s Italy, is a clear expression of a particular moment in post-war European d...

Vico Magistretti (1920-2006) Carimate A pair of red lacquered beech wood and straw chairs, each with four cylindrical feet and conforming back, with a square seat covered with stra...

Armchair designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1928. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Timeless, unique, and profoundly authentic, the LC2 armchair has p...

Franco Albini (1905-1977) lived in Milan where he stuied Architecture at the Politecnico. He started his career at Gio Ponti's studio, with whom he collaborated before getting in tou...

Franco Albini Tre Pezzi Armchari For Cassina In 1959, working with Franca Helg, his long-time assistant, Franco Albini designed Tre Pezzi, a c...

Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1920. Relaunched in 2015. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. One of the versions of the iconic model dated 1918. The structure is in black-stained beechwood with white contrasting parts. Seat and back in green lacquered multiplywood. The armchair can have a single seat and backrest cushion in fabric or leather. The black red and blue (Zeilmaker version) born from Rietveld’s chromatic experimentation While researching the origins of the red and blue model in collaboration with the Rietveld heirs, it emerged that the key idea of the first prototypes was based on the concept of spatial organization expressed through the monochrome tones of its elements. The first version was in fact produced in 1918 in completely unpainted wood.   In the following years Rietveld proposed various examples, either monochrome or painted in different colors, depending on the requirements of his customers and the interiors for which the chairs were intended. As such, it comes as no surprise to find this 1920s version, presented as part of Cassina’s MutAzioni selection, created for the school teacher Wicher Zeilmaker with a black frame with white ends and a dark green painted seat and backrest.  It was Rietveld’s ever-increasing involvement in the De Stijl movement that led him to also use primary colors on this model in 1923, and as such the chair became a veritable manifesto for the emerging neoplastic movement. Initially dubbed slat chair, Rietveld only gave it the name red and blue in the 1950s following its chromatic evolution. The various owners of the different examples used the chair as an abstract-realist sculpture in their interiors and, in some cases, as a simple tool for sitting on, adding cushions to make it more comfortable, just like Cassina offers for the black red and blue today. Important information regarding images of products: Please note that some of the images show other colors and variations of the model, these images are only to present interior design proposals. The item that is selling is on the first image. Important information regarding color(s) of products: Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colors and that everyone sees these colors differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the designer: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888, seems possessed of two personalities, each so distinct that one might take his work to be that of more than one artist. The first personality is that seen in the craftsman cabinet-maker working in a primordial idiom, re-inventing chairs and other furniture as if no one had ever built them before him and following a structural code all of his own; the second is that of the architect working with elegant formulas, determined to drive home the rationalist and neoplastic message in the context of European architecture. The two activities alternate, overlap, and fuse in a perfect osmosis unfolding then into a logical sequence. In 1918 Rietveld joined the “De Stijl” movement which had sprung up around the review of that name founded the year before by Theo van Doesburg. The group assimilated and translated into ideology certain laws on the dynamic breakdown of compositions (carrying them to an extreme) that had already been expressed in painting by the cubists: the “De Stijl” artists also carefully studied the architectonic lesson taught by the great Frank Lloyd Wright, whose influence was widely felt in Europe at that time. Collaborating first with Robert van’t Hoff and Vilmos Huszar...

This striking Dutch armchair from the 1920s reflects the calm architectural language of the Haagse School (The Hague School), a design movement that sought to translate the principle...