Set of Four Barwa Garden Lounge Chairs

designed by Edgar Bartolucci and John J. Waldheim in 1947, for Robert Elliot Co., aluminum tubular frames with original green outdoor fabric and white strapping, labeled, with original boxes.
30 x 21 x 56 in.
Rare to find "new-old stock" set of four chairs. Designed as a streamlined update from Michael Thonet’s bentwood lounge chairs through Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer’s metal versions of the 1920s and 1930s, the “Barwa” – a combination of designers Bartolucci and Waldheim’s names – became synonymous with postwar American leisure. The chair was aligned with an easy lifestyle in a 1949 ad titled “Revolution in Relaxation,” and again in a 1960s advertisement for Hilton Hotels in the Caribbean. Its bent aluminum frame allowed the sitter to rock back for feet-over-head reclining, seen as the epitome of healthful relaxation.

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Overall good condition; one chair has been taken out of the box and partially assembled for photography and is in like new condition; the other three remain in the original box and packaging, the boxes with tears and staining from age a storage.