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Airline Chair Company
USA, 1934
birch, naugahyde, leather, steel 30¾ h × 24½ w × 34 d in (78 × 62 × 86 cm)
USA, 1934
birch, naugahyde, leather, steel 30¾ h × 24½ w × 34 d in (78 × 62 × 86 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $16,250
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This chair is one of 300 Airline chairs produced for the Walt Disney Company’s movie projection room. Although prized for its bent plywood seat, cantilever structure and dramatic streamline style, the chair was never put into mass production. Painted mark to underside: [8307].
literature: American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, Johnson, ppg. 139, 175 KEM Weber: The Moderne in Southern Califonia 1920-1941, Gebhard and von Breton, pg. 82
