Grasshopper armchair/stool, Model No.61 | Dorotheum

Estimated value: 2700-2900 EUR

Auction:
Design

Sales date: 2002-12-11

Location:
Vienna, Austria

Lot number: 144

Design

Eero Saarinen
Year 1946/47
Manufacturer Knoll Associates

Architonic id

4102107

A “Grasshopper” armchair and stool, Model No. 61, designed by Eero Saarinen, 1946/47, for Knoll Associates, New York, manufactured in 1948, the frame of bent laminated birch, the seat shell of moulded plywood, upholstered and covered with white bouclé (renewed), height 88 cm, depth 83 cm, width 62 cm, height of seat 42 cm, stool height 39 cm, 60 x 45 cm.
Lit. Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, p. 286.