$9,000

United States
1960’s

Chaise of tubular steel with plastic end caps and its original mesh sling. By Austrian/American designer Henry Glass, 1960’s. Prototype from his Sling-Line series of mobile and space-saving folding furniture. Glass worked with Gilbert Rohde in New York City in the late 1930’s and then studied in Chicago with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. He was ahead of his time in his concerns with pre-fabrication, modularity, affordability, and ecological responsibility. He was known for his knock-down furniture designs–chairs and tables that folded, nested, or stacked for easy mobility and space-saving flexibility. Austere and visually interesting, these designs utilized inexpensive materials such as plywood, masonite, tubular steel, and canvas. The clean-looking, architectonic lines of the present piece befit Glass’s training in architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna. Provenance: From the collection of Henry Glass.

Featured in "Line, Form, Space", Design Special of DSCENE Magazine, Issue 20, 2024 — Eliot Sumner Cover Story.

Condition
Wear consistent with age and use. Scratches and loss of paint to the metal, some holes and tears to the mesh sling. Bottom end of seat a bit out of alignment.

Measurements
Height: 40 in.
Width/length: 60 in.
Depth: 25 in.

Specifications
Number of items: 1
Materials/techniques: Tubular steel, plastic end caps, plasticized or vinyl mesh sling.