by Dave on October 19, 2009
The Grand Confort chair by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand is constructed with a chromed bent tubular steel frame with leather upholstered cushions. There are several versions of the Grand Confort chair designed by Le Corbusier, each in the same style but with different forms designed for different purposes. The chair pictured above is the LC2 Grand Confort chair, designed in 1928. These chairs exude the International Style and are luxurious and comfortable. These chairs are currently manufactured by Cassina.
More pictures of other Grand Confort chairs after the jump.
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by Dave on October 16, 2009
The MR Adjustable Chaise Lounge by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has become one of the icons of modern design. The adjustable chaise lounge was inspired by Marcel Breur’s use of tubular steel in works like the Wassily Chair. Van der Rohe utilized this tubular steel, a material that had been known as strictly utilitarian, and fused it into a design featuring luxurious padded leather and clean lines. As a result, the MR Adjustable Chaise Lounge became a staple of modern minimalistic design.
Italian furniture company Knoll is the only company currently licensed to manufacture the MR Adjustable Chaise Lounge and the rest of the van der Rohe Collection.
by Dave on October 16, 2009
The “Sitzgeiststuhl” was a chair designed by Heinz & Bodo Rasch. It was constructed of lacquered laminated and solid wood. This chair is thought to be Heinz and Bodo’s interpretation of Mart Stam’s cantilever chair.
Today it is all but impossible to find this chair, but it is featured in Vitra’s popular miniature line of chairs. Featuring some of the most influential modern furniture designs in collectible miniature form.
by Dave on October 16, 2009
The Wassily Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26. While many believe that the chair (originally known as the Model B3 chair) was designed for painter Wassily Kandinsky, this is not the case. Although Breuer designed the chair during a period of time when Kandinsky was also in the Bauhaus, its design was not influenced by the painter. After the original chair was designed and fabricated, Kandinsky was known to have admired it, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky’s quarters. The chair was originally manufactured in the 1920s by furniture company Thonet under the name Model B3. “Wassily Chair” was used as the official name for the chair after Gavina acquired the license to manufacture the chair. Today, the Wassily Chair is manufactured and sold by Knoll. The chair can be found with leather and canvas upholstery.
It should also be noted that the Wassily Chair’s use of tubular steel was very innovative and very influential in the furniture world.
by Dave on October 14, 2009
In 1910 Walter Gropius established his own design practice and joined the Deutscher Werkbund, an association of German artists,architects, designers, and industrialists. That sameyear, he designed this sofa and armchair set, which was supposed to be Gropius’ solution to the Deutscher Werkbund’s debate over whether standardization and creative expression could be reconciled in design. As the pictures show, Gropius’ designs combine a beautiful aesthetic with a relatively simple structure that could be standardized and easily reproduced.
More pictures after the jump.
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