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Lot 29TP,Ω

Yrjö Kukkapuro
'Karuselli' swivel armchair and ottoman, 1964-1965

Amended
12 October 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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Yrjö Kukkapuro

'Karuselli' swivel armchair and ottoman, 1964-1965
Vinyl, chromium-plated metal, painted fibreglass.
Armchair: 91 x 80 x 60 cm
Ottoman: 38 x 60 x 60 cm
Manufactured by Haimi, Finland.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Espoo
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature.
Domus, no. 440, July 1966, front cover, n.p., no. 436, March 1966, n.p.
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 1997, p. 419
Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds., Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities: 1930-1997, exh. cat., Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New Haven, 1998, p. 115
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Scandinavian Design, Cologne, 2002, p. 388
Marianne Aav and Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom, eds., YRJÖ KUKKAPURO – huonekalusuunnittelija, Helsinki, 2008, front cover

Saleroom notices

Armchair measures: 91 x 80 x 95 cm

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