Armchair and stool
Edwin Lutyens
1931
- Medium
- Walnut and replacement leather
- Dimensions
- Chair: 95.9 × 69.9 × 40.7 cm (37 3/4 × 27 1/2 × 16 in.); Stool: 46.4 × 61 × 31.8 cm (18 1/4 × 24 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- furniture
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
leatherwalnutArt Decofurniture makingenglishFurniturewood (plant material)chair20th CenturyNeoclassicismstool
About
This armchair and stool were designed by prolific English architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens for the showroom of a plumbing fixtures company located on fashionable Pall Mall in London. Lutyens was best known for his historical designs, but here he combined classical motifs, such as the chair’s open-splat back, with a geometric style aligned with the Art Deco movement of the 1930s. The legs of this pair feature the Delhi Bell, a style of column capital Lutyens invented.