Key facts

Product:
Antilope armchair
Manufacturer:
Dorotheum
Architonic ID:
4101755
Launched:
1950
Country:
Austria
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

An Antilope armchair, designed in 1950 by Ernest Race for Race Furniture London, white plasticized bent steel rod frame, light blue plastic seat, plasticized threaded brass ball feet, with remains of a paper label DESIGNED FOR/ FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN/ERNEST, height 80 cm, width 54 cm, depth 56 cm, height of seat 44 cm.
Designed on the occasion of the Festival of Britain in 1951 for the terrace of the Royal Festival Hall .
Literature: Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, page 332 - C. Greenberg, Mid-Century Modern, NY 1984, pages 142/143.