French Directoire furniture preserves the elegant and stately characteristics of earlier periods. But, like Gustavian design, the Directoire style is much more restrained. This moderation is evident in the elongated, uncomplicated shapes and clear lines of most pieces. The elegant commode offered here has the typical, straight-lined design, a reminiscent of the Louis XVI period, […]
Cherner Chair, USA 1950-60. Mid century armchair in walnut and beech. The chair was designed in the late 1950s by Norman Cherner (1920-1987) for Plycraft. Even though Plycraft told Cherner that the design would not be produced, the company started the production as its own design. In 1961 the chair appeared in Norman Rockwell’s painting […]
A set of 2 Galvanitas plywood chairs. Mid-Century Modern S16 molded and cherry stained plywood and black patinated pressed steel chairs. Each industrial chair with four steel tapering square legs in a sawhorse or a-frame formation surmounted by backward sloping shaped seat with waterfall front edge, with open form back comprising two tapering black steel supports […]