Image source: Artek — Domus Lounge Chair
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Domus Lounge Chair
Ilmari Tapiovaara's Domus Lounge Chair with a one-piece plywood seat and back, 1946
590 × 890 × 710 mm
1946
Finland
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The Domus Lounge Chair is an Ilmari Tapiovaara design dated 1946 by Artek. Its seat and backrest are made from a single plywood element, and it has the distinctive Domus armrests.
Image source: Artek — Domus Lounge Chair · © Artek and the respective rights holders. Quoted to accompany INTEBEE's independent design commentary and research. · View official product page ↗ · Image use & copyright policy
Construction
Solid birch or solid oak makes the frame. The seat shell is built on a core of form-pressed birch veneer, finished with veneer in birch or oak, or upholstered in fabric or leather.
Specifications
- Size: 59 x 71 x 89 cm (values not labelled on the drawing)
- Frame: solid birch or solid oak
- Versions: twelve on the page, with or without upholstery
- Made in Finland
Story
For the Domus Academica
The product page says Tapiovaara and his wife Annikki won the commission in 1946 for the interior of the Domus Academica student housing complex in Helsinki, and that he created the lounge chair as part of a series of furniture for the students.
Beyond the building
Artek writes that the chair's popularity has extended far beyond the location it was first intended for; a caption shows it at a Starbucks in Helsinki, Finland.
More by Ilmari Tapiovaara
Kiki Lounge Chair
Ilmari Tapiovaara's compact steel-framed lounge chair from the Kiki Collection, 1960
Kiki Sofa
Ilmari Tapiovaara's steel-framed Kiki Sofa for Artek, 2- or 3-seater, 1960
Mademoiselle Rocking Chair
Tapiovaara’s 1956 solid-birch rocking chair, shaped through Finnish tradition and modern design.
Aslak Chair
A stackable beech chair sketched in 1946 and brought into production by technical advances in 1958.
Collection
Domus Collection
Artek's Domus Collection by Ilmari Tapiovaara: the Domus Chair and Domus Lounge Chair, short-armed chairs designed in 1946 for Helsinki's Domus Academica.
