- Product:
- Club chair/ottoman
- Manufacturer:
- Phillips
- Architonic ID:
- 4104495
- Country:
- United States
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Club chair/ottoman from the Behrendt House, Los Angeles
original leather, upholstered in fleece
chair: 26 in. (66 cm) high
ottoman: 16 1/2 x 32 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.
(41.9 x 81.9 x 55.2 cm)
After emphasizing the New York skyline and his Viennese training in his furniture designs of the late 1920s, Frankl's interiors in the 1930s became sleeker, streamlined and more restrained. Perhaps his most important design of the decade was this lounge chair, sometimes referred to as the "Speed" chair. It was originally manufactured by Frankl Galleries in a variety of upholstered surfaces, including monk's cloth and contrasting leathers. When Frankl moved to Los Angeles at the end of the decade, his interior design practice soared in popularity. The current club chair comes from the Behrendt House in the Hollywood Hills, designed by Sumner Spaulding, with interiors by Frankl. A period article on the house entitled "Country House in Town" illustrates Frankl's soft touch, from a rustic rattan dining suite upholstered in Chinese silks to various living room arrangements that have much in common with the "Hollywood high style" of Haines and Laszlo.
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. George Behrendt, Los Angeles
Literature:
Paul Frankl, SPACE FOR LIVING: CREATIVE INTERIOR DECORATION AND DESIGN, New York, 1938, pp. 39, 41, 81 and 105 Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 30S, 40S DECORATIVE ART, Cologne, 2000, p. 266 and p. 279 (for the model in various New York interiors, 1934-1935)
original leather, upholstered in fleece
chair: 26 in. (66 cm) high
ottoman: 16 1/2 x 32 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.
(41.9 x 81.9 x 55.2 cm)
After emphasizing the New York skyline and his Viennese training in his furniture designs of the late 1920s, Frankl's interiors in the 1930s became sleeker, streamlined and more restrained. Perhaps his most important design of the decade was this lounge chair, sometimes referred to as the "Speed" chair. It was originally manufactured by Frankl Galleries in a variety of upholstered surfaces, including monk's cloth and contrasting leathers. When Frankl moved to Los Angeles at the end of the decade, his interior design practice soared in popularity. The current club chair comes from the Behrendt House in the Hollywood Hills, designed by Sumner Spaulding, with interiors by Frankl. A period article on the house entitled "Country House in Town" illustrates Frankl's soft touch, from a rustic rattan dining suite upholstered in Chinese silks to various living room arrangements that have much in common with the "Hollywood high style" of Haines and Laszlo.
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. George Behrendt, Los Angeles
Literature:
Paul Frankl, SPACE FOR LIVING: CREATIVE INTERIOR DECORATION AND DESIGN, New York, 1938, pp. 39, 41, 81 and 105 Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 30S, 40S DECORATIVE ART, Cologne, 2000, p. 266 and p. 279 (for the model in various New York interiors, 1934-1935)