LUTERMA FOR ISOKON VENESTA: A BAUHAUS BIRCH PLYWOOD STOOL

LUTERMA FOR ISOKON VENESTA: A BAUHAUS BIRCH PLYWOOD STOOL, c. 1936, paper label, 45cm H x 33cm sq The Isokon company was founded in London in 1929 by the entrepreneur Jack Pritchard (1899-1992), the architect Wells Coates (1895-1958) and others. The company designed, built and made up-to-date architecture and furniture, often using plywood. Stools, such as this, were sold by Isokon from 1933. The extraordinarily lightweight and surprisingly strong stools were manufactured by the Estonian company Luterma from the early 1930s and were imported by their British distributor Venesta. Comparables of these can be found in the V&A.