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Prototype stackable chair
DesignerAlfred Roth
Manufacturer/Maker/EditorEmbru
OriginSwitzerland
Year1933
Design Museum SectionSwiss Design IconsDesigned by ArchitectsDesign in AluminumNeues Bauen
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Designheroes ID52873
Auction HousePhillips
HeadquarterNew York, United States
MaterialsAluminium
Availabilitysold
Conditionpre-owned/vintage
Sale nameThe Architect
Sale dateApr 29, 2014
Lot Number352
Estimate£25,000 - 35,000
Price realized31'250 GBP
Prototype stackable chair

Prototype stackable chair, designed for the Aluminium Competition, Paris
Alfred Roth
1933
Tubular aluminium, aluminium.
Manufactured by Embru-Werke AG, Switzerland.
78.2 x 45.5 x 50.9 cm (30 3/4 x 17 7/8 x 20 in.)

Literature

Friederike Mehlau-Wiebking, Arthur Rüegg and Ruggero Tropeano, Schweizer Typenmöbel 1925-1935: Sigfried Giedion und die Wohnbedarf AG, Zurich, 1989, p. 89, fig. 41, p. 165
Otakar Máčel, 2100 Metal Tubular Chairs, Rotterdam, 2006, p. 64, p. 124 for the armchair example
Alexander von Vegesack and Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, eds., The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, exh. cat., Weil am Rhein, 2010, p. 74, cat. 92

Provenance

Private collection, Belgium

ObjectPrototype stackable chair
DesignerAlfred Roth
Manufacturer/Maker/EditorEmbru
OriginSwitzerland
Year1933
Design Museum SectionSwiss Design IconsDesigned by ArchitectsDesign in AluminumNeues Bauen
Categories
Designheroes ID52873
Auction HousePhillips
HeadquarterNew York, United States
MaterialsAluminium
Availabilitysold
Conditionpre-owned/vintage
Sale nameThe Architect
Sale dateApr 29, 2014
Lot Number352
Estimate£25,000 - 35,000
Price realized31'250 GBP
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