30's Chrome Furniture  

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cocktails at Barrys house!

That must mean
that Heath likes them.

Bent Tubes
One more vote for Bent Tubes.
Writing this from my linoleum topped bent tubular table and accompanying 1920s Gispen chair.
If this thread takes off I might post some pics later.

30's furniture
This kind of stuff from the late twenties and thirties has always looked the most timeless or even futuristic to my eye. Really hard not to like.

The S-curve
profile is what makes this chair so unusual. The little table is sweet. One notes that in bent-metal furniture, when stability is an issue, the lack of a sharp bend at the floor often necessitates a little "helper" strut of some sort, like the ones at the rear of this chair. Purists would prefer that the chosen material and form not require such compromises, I suppose -- but this is a wonderful piece in any event. Congratulations !

bent tube...
writing from...
bent tube...
writing from my Warren Mcarthur lounge and ottoman...sigh.

Thanks, guys
I have always liked chrome furniture. That S chair IS unusual and YES, that little nub on the bottom is essential for stability. I put those rubber ends on the nubs cause otherwise they would've cut into the carpet.
The chair actually quite comfortable. I got the table cause it looks nice with the chair.
Wonder who made them?
As usual, no book on the Chrome Furniture world, either.

they had a lot of that c...
they had a lot of that chrome furniture just like that one you have at the show in Palm Springs, some guy had 10 pieces all recovered in a interesting leather pattern, looks like streamline modern to me.

Most American chrome furniture
was really Streamline not Deco. I consider Art Deco to be a primarily vertical style and Streamline is a primilarly horizontal style.
Now, I know that's a rather controversal view...because Streamline and Art Deco are clumped together and Streamline was never a movement that had its own identity, starting in the early 1970's when Art Deco got so hot...Streamline was tossed into the mix.
Anyhow, most American Chrome furniture was done in the mid to late 1930's and (believe it or not) was designed for the home. It bombed, big time and other than kitchen dinette sets, most chrome furniture ending up being sold to offices, public spaces, not to mention people's patios. I guess the Depression, coupled with the coldness of Chrome turned people away.
That first big wave of Chrome furniture collecting - about 1968-1975 - was darn exciting. You could find Lloyd two-seaters in excellent condition cheap, and I had a honest-to-goodness Howell Z chair in that nice fat chrome tubing. It did have to be recovered, tho...I only wish I still had the darn thing.
Strangely, the Chrome madness of the 1970's faded away soon after, only to be taken up by the first glimmer of Mid-Century Modern madness; you know, the Eames chairs scattered among the tacky Flamingos and Leonard prints and alot of 'groovy' 1950's designs that have now been discounted as generic.
It's nice that the good MCM stuff is forever in vogue, but it's a shame that the better Chrome pieces aren't still treasured, except by a few.

beauty!!!
Wow...love both pieces, but especially the chair. Few years back, I lived in a house out on farmland and the old lady that owned the property lived there as well. Total packrat!! Anyway, she had this cool chrome rocking chair that I so wanted to get rechromed and reupholstered. Things came up...never happened. Seeing your little beauties makes me want to go back and see if that chair is still there. I'd never seen one before like it and have never seen once since. Lucky you! 🙂

Nice chair - you've gotta...
Nice chair - you've gotta love this stuff- there are a couple of good books - its quite hard to find now but Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850 -1946 by Derek Ostergaard is pretty good , also Tubular Steel Furniture by Tim Benton (always copies on Ebay)altho' this is mostly European. I have a fantastic chrome tube double bed made by the English company PEL which I'll try and post a pic of (need to tidy up first!). Incidentally George Orwell saw tubular steel furniture ("gas pipe chairs") as one of the worst excesses of the 1930s.