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This vintage lounge chair<\/a> might be the strangest piece of Midcentury Modern furniture I’ve seen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Produced by Dutch manufacturer De Ster Gelderland in the 1950s or ’60s\u2014and probably designed in-house, as there’s no famous designer’s name attached to the piece\u2014it is an odd mishmash of styles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

First off, the spindle back. During the Midcentury period, this would have been seen (at least in America) as a folksy throwback. Spindle-back chairs were associated with English and Welsh furniture from earlier centuries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The woven rush seat also speaks of folk craft; no modern upholstered fabrics here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

However, this is offset by the striking padding on the backrest, a circle on a piece otherwise devoid of perfect geometric shapes, made of boucl\u00e9 (yarn loops). This was a then-modern touch; it was just a few years earlier, in the late ’40s, when Eero Saarinen popularized boucl\u00e9 by using it on his iconic Womb Chair, designed for Florence Knoll.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Then there are the through-tenons. This was a nod not to the Arts & Crafts movement, as an American or Brit might guess, but Scandinavia’s own past. Through-tenons were a feature of vernacular Scandinavian furniture dating back to the 16th century\u2014as were spindle backs, hence their inclusion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

These nods to the past aside, the low-slung chair’s rakish stance, the angles of the armrest support, and the splay of the short, stubby legs are hallmark Midcentury Modern.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

All in all, I’ve never seen a chair that blended such rustic, vernacular elements with Midcentury Modern design cues in what I feel was a successful way. Perhaps because it’s so evocative. I read one description of the design that called it “timeless,” and I disagree; this is multiple time periods woven together, in a way that works in my opinion, while it rides right on the line of being a camel (i.e. a horse designed by committee). Wonderful piece and I can’t take my eyes off of it. <\/p>\n

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