Birch Ply Armchair by Gerald Summers

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Birch Ply Armchair
Birch Ply Armchair ( British 1935 to 1940 )
GERALD SUMMERS (1899-1967)

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

Exhibition History

Vitra Design Museum
Phoenix Art Museum

Description / Expertise

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.