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Rare pair of easy chairs designed by Paul and Michael Bode for Tectaform
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pair of rare sled-leg Lounge chairs
designed by Arnold Bode for Tectaform / Federholzgesellschaft Kassel oHG, ca. 1950ies
Priced per chair, two chairs available
Good Vintage condition, with signs of use appropriate to age and use on the surface of the velvet upholstery and chromed parts. The chair’s seat is upholstered in a fine velvet fabric, which has a beautiful contrast to the chromed steel of the base. We‘re not exactly sure of the upholstery is original, at least the foam cushions seem to be redone at some point.
Good vintage condition with wear and small blemishes. Condition is ok, but We‘d recommend reupholstery.
KINDLY NOTE, that the dimensions will not fit for a tall person and these chairs have rather upright seating position.
FURTHER the velvet fabric looks brighter in most of the pictures due to artificial lighting.
Arnold Bode today is well reknown for founding the Documenta Art Exhibition for Contemporary Art in Kassel, which certainly of his greatest contribution. Before his career as one of the leading exhibition makers in contemporary art he would work as an art teacher and was deeply influenced by the Avantgarde movement of his time, the German Bauhaus.
And yet exactly therefore, being a political leftist suffering from the Nazi-regime, he was banned from working as a painter and art teacher in the 1940ies.
Therefore he anonymously joined with his brothers Michael and Paul to develop furniture designs, decorations and interiors. They worked together until the 1950ies for Tectaform and the Federholzgesellschaft in Kassel and would realize modern seating furniture that usually were only produced in very low numbers. In the years after 1945, when Germany was freed by the allies, it was a difficult period to realize furniture with admiration for the emerging international style.
Further Arnold Bode designed interiors, upholstery suede fabrics & decors for wallpapers and presentations in the contexts of commercial exhibitions and fairs in the years after he returned from captivity after WW2.
This pair of sled lounge chairs should be one of his later designs, with a very special construction of the base that he developed altered for several designs and that might be seen as his contribution to furniture design, enabling to slightly swing in seated position. This cantilever principle certainly developed through the Bauhaus and he would adapt this idea for a flat steel construction rather than the characteristic Bauhaus tubular steel base.
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CategoryArmchairsConditionGoodColorsTaupe, SilverMaterialWood, Metal, TextileNumber of items2Height75 cmWidth65 cmDepth84 cmSeat height39 cmSigns of usageHoles, Scratches, WrinklesSeller locationOffenburg, GermanyDelivery optionsDelivery or pickup
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ProfessionalOffenburg, GermanyOn Whoppah since August 2022 • 0 sales