Products tagged with 50's

Original Zig-Zag Chairs in elm wood. The chairs are executed by Rietveld's cabinet-maker Gerard van de Groenekan in the 1960's. Originally designed in 1934. WonderWood acquired these chairs directly from the first owner with a written provenance including

GJ chair

This graceful molded plywood chair is one of the leading plywood chairs ever made. Due to technical constraints during the creation in 1963, only aprox. 300 pieces where made of which only a few still exist.

The re-release of this icon...

Side Chair by Norman Cherner, 1958
The 1958 molded plywood side chair by Norman Cherner is the companion to the classic Cherner Arm Chair.The perfect dining chair, it is built to be handed down from generation to generation, available with upholster...

Hans Brattrud (born 1933) designed the Scandia stackable chair in 1957 as a student project at the National College of Art & Design in Oslo. The chair was revolutionary both in shape and expression. By using horizontal ribs, a twodimensional laminate...

Industrial designer Karel Links conceived his "easy to assemble" chair in 1968. Comprised of just 3 pieces of 10 mm birch plywood, it takes only 15 seconds to assemble this amazing, steady, reliable and beautiful chair. The award winning design rec...

Red Blue chair executed in 1962. Executed by Gerard van de Groenekan who was Rietveld's cabinet-maker. This chair was acquired from first owner, an English London based architect. This unique rare collectors item comes with provenance certificate. A...

A wonderful shaped vintage plywood fifties side table. Possible to be a Dutch vintage design. We love the different plywood shaped shelevs of this unique sidetable. Designer unknown.

Armchair by Norman Cherner, 1958. Originally introduced in 1958, the iconic molded plywood armchair by Norman Cherner is found in collections worldwide. Reissued in exacting detail from the original drawings and molds.

Designed for makers of simple furniture. One of the most famous plywood icons. Made of single sheets of birch plywood. Not a single screw or joint has been used! This piece is an official italian re-edition (only about 200 pieces produced) from 1998,...

The Rocket lamp is a Danish design by Svend Aage Holm Sørensen from the 1950s. This rare lamp is made of wood and copper and has a shade made of glass and opaline glass.

Multipurpose Chair by Egon Eiermann
The classic beauty

The classic multipurpose chair. Until today Eiermann’s SE 68 is unique in its minimalist design and its seating comfort.

SE 68
Designer: Egon Eiermann | 1951

A tubular steel frame in c...

Simplex puzzle

This puzzle was made by Simplex in the Netherlands in the 1950s/60s. To make these puzzles, plywood was used that was left over from the manufacture of Philips radio cabinets. The puzzles were part of a collection of toys and learning ma

Hans Brattrud (born 1933) designed the Scandia stackable chair in 1957 as a student project at the National College of Art & Design in Oslo. The chair was revolutionary both in shape and expression. By using horizontal ribs, a twodimensional laminate...

Vintage Leather Elephant Ottoman. A very cool and rare circa 1960 leather elephant footstool. From the 1920ies until today, these handmade leather animals appeared in a variety of sizes and figures, such as pigs, rhino’s and elephants. This beautiful...

Grete Jalk, BOW chair from 1963 in oak.
Very rare chair.
Production of only +/- 150 pieces.
The Jeppesen factory burned down shortly after production started, including the molds of this chair, which is why only a few pieces were produced.
The conditi

Chairs take the most stress on their back legs, where they bear the weight of the user's upper body. The engineer, architect and designer Jean Prouvé incorporated this simple insight in his design for the Standard Chair: while steel tubing suffices ...