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GERALD SUMMERS (1899-1967) - Receive artist alerts » - More items from this artist »
Gerald Summers Birch Ply Armchair (1935 to 1940 British)
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Dimensions
60.50cm wide 78.00cm high 86.50cm deep (23.82 inches wide 30.71 inches high 34.06 inches deep)
Literature
Vitra Design Museum, 100 Masterpieces
1000 Chairs, Charlotte and Peter Fiell
Design for Today 1934
Vitra Design Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
Made from a single sheet of cut and bent birch ply. Produced 1935-40
There is no design that better illustrates the ideal unity of material, production and form than this armchair by Gerald Summers. However, the production costs of this Modernist masterpiece were so high that only120 were made.
