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Chaise longue (Long Chair) | Dorotheum
Estimated value: 16.000-22.000 EUR
Reached Price : 16.000 EUR
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Sales date: 2003-05-06
Location:
Vienna, Austria
Lot number: 95
Design
Marcel BreuerYear 1935/36
Manufacturer Isokon Furniture Company
Architonic id
4101708
A chaise longue (Long Chair), designed by Marcel Breuer for the Isokon Furniture Company, London, in 1935/36, bent laminated birch, polished shellack, traces of nailing from a later upholstery (removed again as not being original), height 74 cm, length 137 cm, width 61 cm, height of seat 18 cm.
A laminated wood variant of Breuer‘s aluminium chaise longue for Embru. An icon of design of the 1930s. Good condition.
Literature: View from a Long Chair. The Memories of Jack Pritchard, London 1984 (monograph on the chaise longue, 190 pages) - M. Droste - M. Ludewig, Marcel Breuer, Cologne 1994, page 133 - Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, page 226.
A laminated wood variant of Breuer‘s aluminium chaise longue for Embru. An icon of design of the 1930s. Good condition.
Literature: View from a Long Chair. The Memories of Jack Pritchard, London 1984 (monograph on the chaise longue, 190 pages) - M. Droste - M. Ludewig, Marcel Breuer, Cologne 1994, page 133 - Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, page 226.
