Armchair | Dorotheum

Estimated value: 800-1200 EUR

Auction:
Design

Sales date: 2002-12-11

Location:
Vienna, Austria

Lot number: 168

Design Theo Baumann
Year 1952/53
Manufacturer Domus
Architonic id 4102124

A rare armchair, designed by Theo Baumann, 1952/53, for Domus, laminated mahogany, black laquered tubular steel frame, rubber cap feet, numbered in pencil 817172, height 80 cm, depth 53 cm, width 63 cm, height of seat 46 cm.<br>Baumann's chair was made about three years before Arne Jacobsen's Series 7, which was formally very similar to it and subsequently was to be mass produced.<br>Lit. Ch. Marquart, Industriekultur - Industriedesign, p. 57.