Lambda chairs | Dorotheum

Estimated value: 1700-2000 EUR

Reached Price : 1500 EUR

Auction:
Design

Sales date: 2003-05-06

Location:
Vienna, Austria

Lot number: 262

Design

Marco Zanuso
Year 1963
Manufacturer Gavina/Italy

Architonic id

4101771

Three Lambda chairs, designed in 1963 by Marco Zanuso for Gavina/Italy, punched bent metal plate, lacquered in red, rubber cap feet, height 76.5 cm, width 39 cm, depth 44 cm, height of seat 44 cm.
Original condition.
Inspired by the automobile industry and developed within a lengthy process, this design by Zanuso became a forerunner of experimental plastics design.
Literature: A. Bangert, Italian Furniture Design, Munich 1988, page 37 - 100 Meisterwerke aus dem Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 1996, pages 44/45.