Oak and Leather Safari Chair by Wilhelm Kienzle for Wohnbedarf - Switzerland 1950s

Description

This chair is in great condition and is completely safari ready. The leather strap on the right arm has more … more This chair is in great condition and is completely safari ready. The leather strap on the right arm has more cracking in it than the left and is stretched a bit more than the other too. It may be good to have a leather worker replace both at some point.

The Swiss interior designer and industrial designer Wilhelm Kienzle completed a carpentry apprenticeship in Basel and learned the metal craft before he founded his own design office in Munich in 1908. After long stays in Rome and Paris, he worked in 1914 together with Peter Behrens at the AEG in Berlin. For the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, where he taught interior design from 1916 to 1951, Kienzle designed international exhibitions in 1925 in Paris and in 1928 in Stockholm.

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