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.
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.
Lit. Ch. Marquart, Industriekultur - Industriedesign, p. 57.