Considering that Gray designed her villa to resemble a Transatlantic ship, it takes as its starting point transatlantic steamship travel and the deckchairs used on such ships. It was also chosen by Ekart Muthesius to furnish the palace of the Maharajah of Indore during the same period. The wooden side frames are designed with rigorous geometry, tenon joints and chromed brackets. The seat is reminiscent of a deckchair's sling with a pivoting head section. I will be featuring Gray's villa in upcoming installation of Famous Houses but for now, let's relax in this sumptuous modernist deckchair.
Here it is in situ at the villa.
It pops up in some very high end modernist homes, like this one by Lebanese designer Claude Missir (seen with a De Sede Terrazza sofa in the background, previously here)...
...and this lovely streamlined Belgian chalet by architect Maarten Van Severen.
In the UK, the chair can be purchased in leather or hair-on-hide through ARAM. Licensed versions of the chair are available world-wide through Ralph Pucci.
Happy designing!
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