My in-laws had great tast in furniture, we have their Jacobsen Egg, Herman Miller Aeron, as well as some lovely Louis the ? that have been passed down.
This chair is an odditity and not very old as it has a Made in Italy stamp on it. However between their good taste, and the fairly spindly legs on the chair I thought there might be more to it than meets the eye.
My wife is ready to cart it off to a flea market sale, since whatever sentimental value it had departed with them.
I hope this picture linking service works, I've put it in two fields as I'm not sure which is correct.
Thanks for any help.
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I've seen some...
I've seen some advertisements in older(1950s-60s issues)of House Beautiful...and other home magazines...of these style of chairs. I've also run across them at several different estate sales.
I agree Ico Parisi is a good start, but it's also likely they were just a manufactured chair for the masses, as the old advertisements I saw had them priced around $10 a chair through the mail order advertisement. They too had the "made in Italy' stamp.
Not sure if these are the same, but you really ought to study the form to decifer whether they are "High" design chairs or merely mass produced.
Best of luck.
Wow you folks are good. I...
Wow you folks are good. I haven't found the exact chair yet, but a noticed a dining chair that had a distinction I thought was a flaw, one rear leg is "splayed" while the other is very nearly straight.
I believe your guess is accurate, but will pursue further. Thanks so much for the help.
Actually I glanced to...
Actually I glanced too quickly at what I found. I would say it is Gaetano Descalzi. Does that sound reasonable? I am still searching for similiar ones, but the one splayed rear leg, thin legs, and small detail at bottom of the legs seems to match that style.
Thanks again for the tips.
Thanks again for the help. ...
Thanks again for the help. I wasn't able to pin it down for sure. I obviously was mistaken regarding Descalzi since he designed in 19th century. His name was mentioned next to some chairs with a similiar design to ours.
At this point I would guess it's simply a chair made after his designs in the Chiavari area.
I've really enjoyed lurking around this forum. I tried to help on a couple of posts, but quickly found I know a lot less than I thought I did!
Some great humor in here as well. Thanks again.
The designer is ENRICO DELMONTE.
The manufacturer was "Waldron Associates" and was published in both Everyday Art Quarterly (see pic below that I found on eBay, it's to the right of George Nakashima's chair, on the page under the Aalto Stool), and in Alexander Girard's An Exhibition for Modern Living.
For Girard to select it for his 1949 exhibit, gave the design considerable merit, and was likely a decent commercial success. Though in the grand scheme of things, it looks like Mr. Delmonte turned out to be a "one hit wonder".
Enrico Delmonte, where are you now....
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