Wassily Lounge Chair

Stylepark-ID:	05.1400.00044
Categories:	Home furniture › Seating furniture › armchairs

Product description

Frame is seamless tubular steel with a polished chrome finish. Thick cowhide or Spinneybeck belting leather and haired hide.

Specifications

Width	790 mm
Height	730 mm
Depth	690 mm
Seat finish	without upholstery
Height of seat	420 mm
Base finish	with rockers
Backrest finish	without back padding
Armrest finish	with armrests
Material	cowhide chrome steel
Colors	black shades of brown shades of blue shades of green shades of red shades of grey silver

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Sculptured chairs

by Nina Müller | 1/10/2012

Designers are continually designing and developing new chairs. So is it really necessary for architects to also try their hand at furniture design? And are the objects possibly merely miniatures of their architecture? “Von Aalto bis Zumthor: Architektenmöbel” (From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by architects) in the Cologne Museum of Applied Art is a show that proves this is definitely not the case.

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In Chair World

by Sandra Hofmeister | 10/30/2011

Any designer worth his salt must at some point in his career design a chair. Even the design theorists constantly refer to chairs when analyzing the latest trends. Despite all the technical innovations, the notion of the substantive and super-normal currently prevails.

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On tranquility and comfort

by Mathias Remmele | 10/21/2011

The English armchair was for many years considered the epitome of luxury. So what could a contemporary version look like, freed of all the historical frills and that demonstration of bourgeois power? A stroll through the history of the lounge chair, from the Eames's ideas to the Brothers Campana.

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If you cannot let people try, the distance is really dangerous – part 1

2/25/2011

Paola Antonelli is in charge of design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and thus for the department which, in the view of the founding director Alfred Barr was destined to show everyone the opportunities for including art in their own lives. Jochen Stöckmann speaks to Paola Antonelli about design exhibitions in an art museum, about how important it is despite computers to create things by hand, about mobile phones and the criteria for selecting items for inclusion in the collection.

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Bauhaus Revisited

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 12/15/2009

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