September 12, 2004
i'm looking for some help...
I found this chair this weekend, and i am pretty sure that it is some kind of classic modern reproduction, but i can't seem to find the real version of the chair anywhere, and the manufacturer's name doesn't lead me anywhere. So if anyone recognizes this chair and can tell me who made the original design that would be great.
here are some more pictures...
i am planning on recovering it, but i kinda want to see what it would have originally had, because no self respecting designer would have put the stuff that is on it now on it.
Posted by winslow at September 12, 2004 07:09 PMas useless as this is to say..
i have no idea.
sorry.
that is a classic walmart circa 1975
Posted by: at September 17, 2004 07:56 AMwho wrote that? and where did you find that out? was walmart even around in 1975?
Posted by: Winslow Taft at September 17, 2004 08:46 AMit was giga, and i was just poking fun at you.
silly slo.
i figured as much, but actually i thought i was dicky balls, just seemed like something he would do, especially the leaving no name part.
Posted by: Winslow Taft at September 20, 2004 11:34 AMslow, i checked it out in Vitra's 100 classic chair collection and didn't see anything that resembled it.
Posted by: John at September 22, 2004 08:55 PMhey winslow,
I'm at work now but I'll check out my 1000 chairs book tonight and see if I can find out anything.
Posted by: jarrod at September 23, 2004 08:26 AMthanks for nothing John!
let me know if you find anything jarrod. this chair seems to be a real stumper?!
Posted by: Winslow Taft at September 24, 2004 12:17 AM
Well it took a little bit of digging but this eventually turned up. Your chair was made by or designed after the Hans and Wassilli Luckardt chair called the ST14 circa. 1929. The brothers got their start in sculpture. If I had my guess I would say that your chair stands a strong chance of being a re-issue of the original. A company that reproduced several modern pieces, including the eams bent plywood chair, redistributed this chair in 1936. It was redistributed under the name s36p. I wouldn't get your hopes up but it's possible that your chair could still be worth a good bit. The original required a very expensive manufacturing technique that required special bending tools as well as a hydraulic press. That expense was passed on to the customer and is probably still keeping the resale up today. I don't have any way of knowing how many the Lockhart’s originally released or how many were released by the Thonet company or any way of knowing whether or not your chair frame is one of the originals or a re-issue. It's a little tricky to search this guy using google because so many of the searches for "wassilli" and "Thonet" produced links to these other modern design furniture pages.
Here is a link to one of the better sites I found.
http://www.alivar.com/museum/luckhardt/194.htm
i think that there's a few too many "or"s in that paragraph
Posted by: jarrod allen at September 29, 2004 05:19 PM