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The McIntire Chair [5] is a vase-back chair, originally part of a large set, was made for Elias Hasket Derby. The chair's overall design is based on plate 2 of George Hepplewhite's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (London, 1788), but enriched considerably by the addition of relief carving to parts of the back and the front legs.
Marcel Lajos Breuer (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ər / BROY-ur; German: [ˈbʁɔʏɐ]; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
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Versions of the chair are also on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. [10] [11] The Red and Blue Chair was on loan [citation needed] to the Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture as part of an exhibition when a fire destroyed the entire building in May 2008.
In order to handle all these projects, in 1961 Rietveld set up a partnership with the architects Johan van Dillen and J. van Tricht built hundreds of homes, many of them in the city of Utrecht. [ 7 ] His work was neglected when rationalism came into vogue, but he later benefited from a revival of the style of the 1920s thirty years later.
Eames and Saarinen's goal was to mold a single piece of plywood into a chair; the Organic Chair was born out of this attempt. The chair won first prize, but its form was unable to be successfully mass-produced. Eames and Saarinen considered it a failure, as the tooling for molding a chair from a single piece of wood had not yet been invented.
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed specifically for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky , who was on the Bauhaus faculty at the same time.
601 Chair by Dieter Rams. 10 Downing Street Guard Chairs, two antique chairs used by guards in the early 19th century; 14 chair (No. 14 chair) is the archetypal bentwood side chair originally made by the Gebrüder Thonet chair company of Germany in the 19th century, and widely copied and popular today [1]