GA-2 Armchair Gunnar Asplund

The GA-2 armchair was designed in the 1930s by Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) and reproduced by Källemö made to order, from the 1980s. Signature shapely chrome steel legs and reupholstered by specialist, Helena Engström, in dark grey Gotland sheepskins. A wonderful example of Asplund's three-dimensional vision of uniting space, simplicity, comfort and elegance.

Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect celebrated for his Swedish neo-classical architecture of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life, a major proponent of the modernist style. Asplund was a professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931.

Asplund's most known architectural works are the Stockholm Public Library (constructed between 1924-1928) that exemplifies the Nordic Neoclassical Swedish Grace movement and the Gothenburg City Hall building (constructed between 1917-1937) where his work transformed into a more functionalist form. He collaborated with Sigurd Lewerentz on designing Skogskyrkogarden cemetery known today as a UNESCO world heritage site. In the 1930s he collaborated again with Sigurd Lewerentz to design the boardroom of The Swedish Society of Arts and Crafts, Nybrogtan, now known as the Asplundrummet (Asplunds Room). He designed the chairs, tables, cupboards, textiles and lighting for the room that today remains largely untouched. The room is a national and international cultural heritage site and exemplifies a typical 1930s Swedish modernist and functionalist approach. 

L 75cm x W 75cm x H 67cm

Swedish, Designed 1930s, Manufactured by Källemö since 1980s.

Pristine condition.

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