Image source: Artek — Lounge Chair 43
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Lounge Chair 43
Alvar Aalto's cantilevered birch lounge chair with linen webbing, dated 1937
610 × 700 × 1640 mm
1937
Finland
Approx. $6,400 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Description
Overview
Lounge Chair 43 is a lounge chair by Alvar Aalto that Artek dates 1937. A cantilevered frame of form-bent solid birch lamella carries a seat of linen webbing.
Image source: Artek — Lounge Chair 43 · © 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
The frame is clear-lacquered birch in all six versions; the webbing comes in six colours.
Specifications
- Width: 61 cm; length: 164 cm; height: 70 cm (read by position, not labelled on the drawing)
- Frame: form-bent solid birch lamella; seat: linen webbing
- Webbing colours: six
- Origin: Finland
Story
Bentwood, cantilevered
Artek's page describes Lounge Chair 43 as a further exploration of bentwood manufacturing and a statement in design, built on the stability and flexibility of birch lamella. Its seat webbing has its own heading on the page: "Lounge Chair 43 employs comfortable linen belt-webbing".
From the experiments
In its 90-year archive feature Artek says the chair shows what came out of Korhonen and Aalto's woodbending experiments.
More by Alvar Aalto
Chair 611
Alvar Aalto's stackable birch chair with a linen webbing seat and back, dated 1929
Armchair 402
Alvar Aalto's cantilever armchair with a cushioned seat, shown at Milan in 1933
Chair 65
Alvar Aalto's low-backed birch chair with a round seat, dated 1935
Stool 60
Alvar Aalto's three-legged, stackable birch stool, in continuous production since 1933