Seating

In this age of the "couch generation", you just have to take a front seat in an auction to get yourself wing chairs, sofas, benches, armchairs, dining chairs and stools.
"There are as many forms of seating as conversation," said Philippe Jullian in 1961, in his erudite and amusing little encyclopaedia on "styles".
Loveseats for tête-à-tête conversations, low chairs for chatting by the fire and sofas for chatting online are all objects you can buy in seating auctions …unless you're looking for a méridienne for a quiet rest, a dos-à-dos (a 19th century double seat placing people back to back) or that psychoanalysis speciality, the couch.
While seating, according to Philippe Jullian, "became lower for romantic reasons and wider to accommodate crinolines" during the second empire, the 20th century has its own iconic models, including Harry Bertoia's side chair, Charlotte Perriand's chaise longue and Charles Eames' plastic armchair.
Design addicts can sit pretty after an online seating auction if they garner a sofa by Jean Royère, a chair by Philippe Starck or an armchair by the Bouroullec brothers.

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Wassily - Chair - design club chair B3 - pendant - design Marcel Breuer, Bauhaus, model club chair B3, this version probably late 1990s, the designer's signature embossed into the leather on the underside, frame tubular steel, high-gloss chrome-plated, cover white cowhide, partial, minimal signs of age, H/SH each approx. 73/42cm, W approx. 79cm, the original Wassily Chair is made of a special steel tube that does not deform even after prolonged use and guarantees stability, the elaborate chrome plating and the specially treated leather cover also indicate the authenticity of the design classic, in addition, for example, the caps are made of metal and are not made of plastic, which guarantees stability. The Wassily armchair was manufactured industrially by Thonet from the late 1920s, in the 1960s the Italian furniture manufacturer Dino Gavini acquired the licenses, but only produced the Wassily Chair with moderate success, it was also Gavini who gave the club chair B 3 its current name Wassily armchair for marketing reasons, in 1968 Gavini's company was then bought by Knoll International, and has been in production at the American furniture manufacturer ever since, in today's re-edition, the steel tubes are chrome-plated and not nickel-plated as originally, the covering of the frame, which forms the seat, backrest and armrests, was originally made of fabric, canvas or leather and sewn with the then completely new iron yarn - a particularly tear-resistant and hard-wearing cotton yarn, today the Wassily Chair is made by Knoll International from high-gloss chrome-plated tubular steel and a covering made of leather in various designs

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