The 10 Most Popular Vintage Design Chairs

You want to fill your home with some beautiful vintage design chairs? This article is made for you! L’Appart Vintage is here to help you finding your dream vintage piece for your living room. Impress your guests with some curated chairs, and please yourself on one of these 10 rare and stunning vintage chairs:

1. The Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman

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The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman is one of the most significant designs of the 20th century. Unparalleled craftsmanship and rigorous attention to detail has made it a fixture in homes across the world. Charles’s vision was for a chair with “the warm, receptive look of a well-used first baseman’s mitt.” The chair is composed of three curved plywood shells covered with veneer: the headrest, the backrest and the seat. The layers are glued together and shaped under heat and pressure. The shells and the seat cushions are essentially of the same shape, and composed of two curved forms interlocking to form a solid mass. The chair back and headrest are identical in proportion, as are the seat and the ottoman.

Designer

Designed by American designers Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller.

DATE

1956

Dimensions & Materials

• Tall Chair: 33.25″ H 33.5″ W 37.75″ D
• Ottoman: 17.13″ H 20.75″ W 21.5″ D
• Plywood, Leather

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2. Pierre Jeanneret Cane Armchair for Chandigarh, India 1950

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This Pierre Jeanneret arm chair office chair is a historic piece of vintage design furniture. It was manufactured in and for the architectural city of Chandigarh, India in the 1950s. It is made of high quality wood. The seat and back are upholstered with cane, matching the design very nicely.

Designer

Designed by Swiss designer Pierre Jeanneret.

DATE

1950

Dimensions & Materials

• 80 x 50 x 53 cm
• Wood

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3. Charles Pollock Leather Executive Desk Chair for Knoll

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Pollock designed his Executive Chair to feature a single aluminum band around the chair’s perimeter to hold the chair together both structurally and visually. In one of Knoll’s most memorable designer collaborations, Pollock’s timeless and elegant design became an instant bestseller and a classic symbol of the modern workplace.

Designer

Designed by American designer Charles Pollock.

DATE

1984

Dimensions & Materials

• Height: 32.5 in. (82.55 cm)
• Width: 26 in. (66.04 cm)
• Depth: 27 in. (68.58 cm)
• Seat Height: 19 in. (48.26 cm)

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4. Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand LC4, Whonbedarf Edition, 1978

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One of Cassina’s worldwide best-sellers, the LC4 is the quintessential chaise longue, designed in 1928, and based on an in-depth exploration of reclining chairs. The three designers devised the LC4 as an expression of the concept of relaxation, with a focus on the human figure, the link between form and function being reflected in the balance between geometric purity and ergonomic intent.

Designer

Designed by Swiss-French designer Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, dit Le Corbusier.

DATE

1978

Dimensions & Materials

• Material: Leather
• Dimensions (in): W 62.99 x D 22.20 x H 27.17
• Dimensions (cm): W 160 x D 56.4 x H 69

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5. Pierre Jeanneret, PJ-SI-30-A, Committee Armchair, Chandigarh, Circa 1955

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Armchair Designed by Pierre Jeanneret around 1950, launched in 2019. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Inscribed on UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage List in 2016, the extraordinary architecture of Le Corbusier’s Capitol complex, designed by Chandigarh in 1951, has won praise for its celebration of an independent nation open to modernity.

Designer

Designed by Swiss designer Pierre Jeanneret.

DATE

1955

Dimensions & Materials

• Height: 35.44 in. (90 cm)
• Width: 22.84 in. (58 cm)
• Length: 35.44 in. (90 cm)
• Seat Height: 18.9 in. (48 cm)

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6. Elda Lounge Chair by Joe Colombo, 1960

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Cesare “Joe” Colombo was an Italian designer renowned for combining pop aesthetics and high-tech materials with a total or environmental attitude toward design. Colombo anticipated that technology’s profound impact on society would increasingly allow people to retreat to the private spaces of their own homes.

Designer

Designed by Italian designer Joe Colombo.

DATE

1960

Dimensions & Materials

• Length : 95 cm
• Height : 100 cm
• Depth : 95 cm
• Main material : Leather
• Other material : Fiberglass

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7. Vintage F598 Groovy Chair by Pierre Paulin for Artifort, 1980

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Original Artifort Groovy Chair (or “M” Chair), designed by Pierre Paulin in the 80’s with stunning and high quality Alpaca wool bouclé fabric from Paris.

Designer

Designed by French designer Joe Colombo.

DATE

1980s

Dimensions & Materials

• Length : 85 cm
• Height : 63 cm
• Depth : 68 cm
• Main material : Fabric
• Other material : Aluminum

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8. Vintage Orange Diamond Chairs by Harry Bertoia for Knoll, 1954

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The diamond chair 421 is the most special and successful piece of furniture that Harry Bertoia ever designed. This well-known diamond chair was designed by Harry Bertoia in the 1950s.

Designer

Designed by American designer Harry Bertoia.

DATE

1954

Dimensions & Materials

• Width: 87 cm
• Depth: 76 cm
• Height: 71 cm
• Seat Height: 43 cm
• Materials: Fabric, Steel

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9. Diamond Chair by Harry Bertoia for Knoll, Early 1950

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Sculptor, furniture and jewelry designer, graphic artist and metalsmith, Harry Bertoia was one of the great cross-disciplinarians of 20th century art and design and a central figure in American modernism. Among furniture aficionados he is known for the wire-lattice “Diamond” chair (and its variants such as the tall-backed “Bird” chair) designed for Knoll Inc. and first released in 1952.

Designer

Designed by American designer Harry Bertoia.

DATE

1952

Dimensions & Materials

• Height: 30 in. (76.2 cm)
• Width: 33.5 in. (85.09 cm)
• Depth: 30 in. (76.2 cm)
• Seat Height: 15.5 in. (39.37 cm)
• Main material : Metal

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10. Modern Soriana Lounge Chair in Bouclé Wool by Scarpa for Cassina, 1969

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The “Soriana Chair” was the first piece designed in the collection and won the Compasso D’oro in 1969 for its design. The Soriana collection was meant to express beauty and comfort by using a whole bundle of fabric held by a chrome-plated steel clamp.

Designer

Designed by Italian designers Afra & Tobia Scarpa.

DATE

1969

Dimensions & Materials

• Width: 100 cm
• Depth: 92 cm
• Height: 67 cm
• Materials: Fabric, Metal
• Color: Gold