Soft Chairs | Dorotheum

Estimated value: 2500-3000 EUR

Auction:
Design

Sales date: 2003-05-06

Location:
Vienna, Austria

Lot number: 223

Design

Ueli & Susi Berger
Year 1967
Manufacturer Viktoria Werke ag., Baar/CH

Architonic id

4101757

A pair of rare Soft Chairs from the 992 seat elements system, designed in 1967 by Ueli & Susi Berger for Viktoria Werke AG, Baar/Switzerland, produced between 1970 and 1974, polyether foam block, white vinyl covering, height 70 cm, width 62 cm, depth 95 cm, height of seat 34 cm.
The additive seat profile is cut from an angular block. The reverse covering has five ventilation openings. The Soft Chair figures in the design collection of the Museum of Modert Art in New York.
Literature: A. Rüegg, Schweizer Möbel und Interieurs im 20. Jahrhundert, 2000, page 37 - Ideales Heim, June 1994, page 57, special edition dedicated to Swiss furniture.