- Product:
- Chaise longue (Long Chair)
- Manufacturer:
- Dorotheum
- Architonic ID:
- 4101708
- Launched:
- 1935
- Country:
- Austria
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
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Key facts
Product description
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.