MR Lounge Chair

Overview

The MR Lounge Chair is Knoll's cantilevered lounge chair of the MR Collection, offered armless and with arms (the design-plan page shows model 248LC with arms). Knoll dates it to 1927. A channel-tufted leather cushion rests on leather straps over a polished chrome tubular steel frame.

Construction

• Quilted, seamed leather cushion in Spinneybeck leathers
• Leather straps in a matching colour carry the cushion
• Polished chrome on a frame of seamless tubular steel; glides included

Specifications

• With arms, W 25¾" × D 36¼" × H 34¼" (654 × 921 × 870 mm); seat at 17¾", arms at 23"
• Armless on the sheet: W 23¾" × D 34¾" × H 34¼"
• Page and shop print H 33", a 15¾" seat, W 25½" with arms and 23½" armless
• Weight 24 lb armless, 32 lb with arms

Armless or with arms

Knoll's shop sells the MR Lounge Chair in two versions on one page, armless and as an armchair, and its dimension table lists both. Knoll dates the chair to 1927, and the design-plan page shows the version with arms.

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Supportive comfort

The shop page says the MR Lounge Chair has a canted back and a cantilevered bounce, with a channel-tufted seat that offers supportive comfort in a statement-making form.