James Leonard Chair 1950s

5 Responses to James Leonard Chair 1950s

1. peter wyeth | November 8, 2009 at 10:21 am | Reply

   James Leonard designed the chair in 1947, along with a beautiful version with arms which no one has ever seen (as far as I know) except in a catalogue of 1948. There is a later version with arms adapted from the ordinary chair, but the original is the most beautiful chair I know. In the same year he designed a stacking table with exposed legs in the same ‘compass’ shape that Prouve used in 1951, except the legs were not exposed. Wim Rietveld did a version in metal in 1961 with exposed legs called ‘pyramid’. Leonard pioneered pressure-injected aluminium casting for his 1947/8 range and over 1 million of the chairs were made, not many survive today.

2. Pereshaped | November 18, 2009 at 11:53 pm | Reply

   I have three surviving ones. The original play was broken beyond belief, none existant. Naively at the time i had no idea what they where and had them refitted with strips of Jarrah wood and they do look great

3. charles martin | March 30, 2010 at 1:14 am | Reply

   There are a pair of kindergarten-size Leonard chairs on ebay right now. They were once marketed through Creative Playthings, apparently.

   http://cgi.ebay.com/CREATIVE-PLAYTHINGS-2-Child-CHAIRS-by-James-Leonard-ESA_W0QQitemZ290419280925QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item439e568c1d#ht_750wt_1165

4. roger | June 7, 2010 at 12:57 pm | Reply

   I’ve a similar chair, with arms and a table that I’bve just launched on ebay if anyone is interested.
   http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aluminium-Wood-Desk-and-Chair-/280517835837?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Antiques_AntiqueFurniture_SM&hash=item41502a7c3d
   Best wishes,

   Roger

5. Roger | June 7, 2010 at 1:47 pm | Reply

   You might be interested in looking at the James Leonard chair (with arms) and table just posted on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aluminium-Wood-Desk-and-Chair-James-Leonard-/280517835837?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Antiques_AntiqueFurniture_SM&hash=item41502a7c3d
   Roger

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