Armchair and stool
<p>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.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1931
- 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.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Edwin Lutyens
Artist
Installation
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth century".
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- Edwin Lutyens
- Year
- 1931
- 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.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1931-133924
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified