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Wassily Chair
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. Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky's personal quarters. The chair became known as "Wassily" decades later when it was re-released by Italian manufacturer Gavina which had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair's origins. History A champion of the modern movement and protégé of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer is equally celebrated for his achievements in architecture and furniture. Breuer was an outstanding student and subsequently a master carpenter at the Bauhaus in the early 1920s. His entire body of work, bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauhaus Chair Breuer
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2009), , pp. 64–66 The school became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify individual artistic vision with the principles of mass production and emphasis on function. The Bauhaus was founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar. It was grounded in the idea of creating a ''Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("comprehensive artwork") in which all the arts would eventually be brought together. The Bauhaus style later became one of the most influential currents in modern design, modernist architecture, and architectural education. The Bauhaus movement had a profound influence on subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. Staff at the Bauhaus included prominent artists such as Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adirondack Chair
The Adirondack chair is an outdoor lounge chair with wide armrests, a tall slatted back, and a seat that is higher in the front than the back. Its name references the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. The chair was invented by Thomas Lee between 1900 and 1903 in Westport, New York which is located in Adirondack Park, but the chair was patented by his friend Harry C. Bunnell, who added some minor adaptations to make it more suitable for convalescents. The chairs were popularized in nearby tuberculosis sanatoriums, where they were favored for the way the armrests helped open up the sitter's chest. The Lee–Bunnell chair, however, had a single plank for the chair back; it was not until 1938 that the fan-shaped back with slats was patented by Irving Wolpin. Adirondack chairs are now often made by injection molding and can take any form. Since the 1980s, they are generally marketed in Canada as "Muskoka chairs", although the design did not originate in Muskoka. Gallery A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 In Art
Events from the year 1926 in art. Events * Marcel Duchamp's '' The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even'' is accidentally broken. * Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay. Awards * Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – ''Silk and Lace'' Works * Max Beckmann – ''Quappi in Blue'' * H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London * Alexander Calder – ''Cirque Calder'' (wire sculpture) * Alexander Stirling Calder – ''Shakespeare Memorial'', Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Salvador Dalí – '' The Basket of Bread'' * Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon * Edwin Dickinson – ''The Cello Player'' * Max Ernst ** ''The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: A.B., P.E. and the Artist'' ** ''The Dove was Right'' * Alberto Giacometti – ''Spoon Woman'' * Dora Gordine – ''Chinese Head (Chia-Chu Chang: The Chinese Philosopher)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Art
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number) * One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (1987 film), a 1987 science fiction film * '' 19-Nineteen'', a 2009 South Korean film * '' Diciannove'', a 2024 Italian drama film informally referred to as "Nineteen" in some sources Science * Potassium, an alkali metal * 19 Fortuna, an asteroid Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album '' 63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle * " Stone in Focus", officially "#19", a composition by Aphex Twin * "Nineteen", a song from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' by Bad4Good * "Nineteen", a song from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X-chair
An X-chair (also scissors chair, Dante chair or Savonarola chair) is a chair with an X-shaped structural system, frame. It was known to have been used in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Rome, and Ancient Greece, Greece. The Christian faldstool is a type of X-chair. History X-chairs have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, often featuring carvings in the shape of animals or animal-skin draperies. Roman X-chairs are believed to have been used by magistrates and nobles. A type of folding chair with a frame like an ''X'' viewed from the front or the side originated in medieval Italy. Also known as a Savonarola or ''Dante chair'' in Italy, or a ''Luther chair'' in Germany, the X-chair was a light and practical form that spread through Renaissance Europe. In England, the Glastonbury chair made an X-shape by crossing the front and back legs, while in Spain X-chairs were inlaid with ivory and metals in the Moorish designs. The use of the name Savonarola chair comes from a nineteenth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watchman's Chair
A watchman's chair is a design of unupholstered wood construction featuring a forward slanted seat, such that the watchman could not readily fall asleep without sliding downward and off the front of the chair. Design The design was developed in Western Europe, and was used from late medieval times well into the 19th century. Currently this antique furniture item is found primarily in the possession of collectors and museums. In literature There are a number of references to the watchman's chair in literature such as the allusion to its use in Collins's ''Jezebel''. Sir Toby was described to be sitting in a canopied watchman's chair in one of Shakespeare's plays.''The Shakespeare Season at The Old Vic, 1957-58 and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1958'', M. St. Clare Byrne, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Autumn, 1958), pp. 507-530 See also * Curule chair A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turned Chair
Turned chairs – sometimes called thrown chairs or spindle chairs – represent a style of Elizabethan or Jacobean turned furniture that were in vogue in the late 16th and early 17th century England, New England and Holland. In turned furniture, the individual wooden spindles of the piece are made by shaping them with chisels and gouges while they are being turned on a lathe. Joiners or carpenters who made such furniture were termed "turners", or "bodgers", hence the surname ''Turner''. Today, turned chairs – as well as various turned decorative elements – are still commonly made, but by machines rather than by hand. History The earliest turned chairs are of uncertain date, but they became common in the 17th century. Before this date there are rare examples that claim to date back to before 1300,"King Stephen's Throne", c. 1300, Hereford Cathedral but most of these early examples are from manuscripts. Romance of Alexander, c.1340, (MS Bodley 264, f.68v, Bodleian Library, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Chairs
The following is a partial list of chairs with descriptions, with internal or external cross-references about most of the chairs. For other chair-like types (like bench, stool), see . 0–9 * 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 * 3107 chair (Model 3107 chair) is a variant of the Ant chair, both designed by Arne Jacobsen (see below) * 40/4 (forty-in-four) stacking Chair designed by David Rowland, 1964 * 406 Aalto armchair designed by Alvar Aalto in 1938 (IKEA sells a similar design called the Poäng lounge chair) * 4801 armchair designed by Joe Colombo for Kartell, 1963 * 601 Chair designed by Dieter Rams * 620 Chair designed by Dieter Rams for Vitsœ * 654W Lounge Chair (Model 654W), designed by Jens Risom for Knoll * 683 chair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Confort
Grand Confort is a cube-shaped high armchair, whose leather cushions are held in a chrome-plated steel corset. It was designed as a modernist response to the traditional club chair in 1928 by a team of three: Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and his cousin and colleague Pierre Jeanneret. The LC-2 and LC-3 were referred as ''Cusion Baskets'' by Le Corbusier. They are more colloquially referred to as the ' and ' due to their respective sizes. Series These chairs have become most famous: * LC-1 – Originally titled ''Basculant'', ''Fauteuil'' Grand Confort * LC-2 – ''Petit Modèle'': With a shape close to a cube, it is more narrow but has a higher seat and back. It is a small model of comfort sofa. * LC-3 – ''Fauteuil grand confort, grand modèle'': Wider and lower to the ground, it is a large model of comfort sofa. In popular culture The LC-2 (and similar LC-3) have been featured in a variety of media, notably the Maxell "blown away" advertisement. At the 2010 Apple even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glastonbury Chair
Glastonbury chair is a nineteenth-century term for an earlier wooden chair, usually of oak, possibly based on a chair made for Richard Whiting (Abbot), Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, England. The Glastonbury chair was known to exist since the Early Middle Ages, but seems to have disappeared from use in part of the Later Middle Ages; it re-emerged in use in Italy by the fifteenth century AD. In England it was made originally from a description brought back from Rome in 1504 by Abbot Richard Beere to Glastonbury Abbey, and was produced for or by John Arthur Thorne, a monk who was the treasurer at the abbey. Arthur perished on Glastonbury Tor in 1539, hanged, drawn and quartered alongside his master, Richard Whiting (Abbot), Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, during the dissolution of the monasteries. The Abbot sat on a Glastonbury chair during his trial at Bishop's Palace, Wells, where one of the two original surviving examples (illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faldstool
Faldstool (from the Old High German, O.H. Ger. ''falden'' or ''falten'', "to fold," and ''stuol'', German Language, Mod. Ger. ''Stuhl'', "stool"; from the medieval Latin ''faldistolium'' derived, through the old form ''fauesteuil'', from the French language, Mod. Fr. ''fauteuil'') is a portable folding chair, used by a bishop when not occupying the throne in his own cathedral, or when officiating in a cathedral or church other than his own; hence any movable folding stool used during divine service. Whatever the origins, it is difficult not to note the general resemblance to the curule chair or ''sella curulis'', which according to Livy supposedly derived its name from ''currus'', "chariot", and like the Toga, Roman toga originated in Etruria, but much earlier stools supported on a cross-frame are known from the New Kingdom of Egypt. Just as a campstool of similar form came to be used by military commanders in the field, so it became the ceremonial chair that accompanied the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curule Chair
A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe through to the 20th century. Its status in early Rome as a symbol of political or military power carried over to other civilizations, as it was also used in this capacity by kings in Europe, Napoleon, and others. History Ancient Rome In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the curule chair (''sella curulis'', supposedly from ''currus'', "chariot") was the seat upon which magistrates holding ''imperium'' were entitled to sit. This includes dictators, '' magistri equitum'', consuls, praetors, '' curule aediles'', and the promagistrates, temporary or ''de facto'' holders of such offices. Additionally, the censors and the flamen of Jupiter ( Flamen Dialis) were also allowed to sit on a curule seat, though these positions did not hold ''imperium''. Livy writes that the three '' flamines maiores'' or high priests of the Archaic Triad of major gods were eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
