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Property from an Important Private Collection

Alvar Aalto, Chaise Lounge

Auction Closed

December 12, 06:50 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Alvar Aalto

Chaise Lounge


designed circa 1947

model no. 39

produced by O.Y. Huonekalu-ja Rakennusyötehdas, A.B., Turku, retailed by Artek

bent laminated birch, webbing

24 ½ x 65 ½ x 24 ⅜ in. (62.2 x 166.4 x 62 cm)

Alexander von Vegesack, Weil am Rhein, Germany

Phillips New York, Masterworks from the Collection of Alexander von Vegesack, December 8, 2005, lot 7

Acquired from the above by the present owner

100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996-2000

R. Craig Miller. Modern Design in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1890–1990. New York, 1990, ill. pp. 152–53

Marie-Laure Jousset and Katarina V. Posch, Portrait d'une collection: Alexander von Vegesack, exh. cat., Paris, 1993, p. 42 (for the present lot illustrated)

Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds. 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 140-141 (for the present lot illustrated)

Pirkko Tuukkanen, Alvar Aalto Designer, Vammala, 2002, p. 175