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The Göteborg chair is Erik
Gunnar Asplund’s poetic interpretation of Rationalist ideas. The chair was
commissioned for the extension of the Town Hall in Göteborg, Sweden, whose
warm, wood-panelled rooms are evoked in its ashwood frame. The curved and
slightly convex profile recalls Bauhaus designs. In this case, though, Asplund
keeps the back and legs the same width. We also see an homage to the historic
Thonet No. 14 chair, one of the early examples of industrially manufactured
furniture.
About Designer | |
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Erik Gunnar Asplund |
Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major
proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm
International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal
Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later
published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space. |