
Chair with upholstered seat platform and backrest and with a solid wood frame. The engineering of the back chair legs that were extended upward to integrate with the backrest, and the cross brace with the seat platform resulted in such a stable structure that no underframe was necessary.
Hartmut Lohmeyer
Production period from 1959 to 1966
Wilkhahn
Seat: Wood, Cushion green
Back: Wood, Cushion green
Frame: Wood, Cherry
Seat height: 47 cm
Overall height: 87 cm
Width: 63 cm
Depth: 66 cm
ist price 163 DM (Price List 1959 S)
Prof. Dr. Georg Leowald, a professor at the Ulm University of Design (HfG), joined Wilkhahn at the end of the 1950s. He went on to create numerous successful designs. These designs were characterized by clear lines and refined details in both wood craftsmanship and innovative plastic technology, reflecting the typical "architect chairs" of Wilkhahn. He introduced a plastic structure as the "chair of the future," and he was proven right. His fiberglass seat shells, such as the 2002, 227, 240, or 241 models, surpassed Charles Eames' and Herman Miller's "Plastic Chairs" due to the improved elasticity of the fiberglass.



