Rare Tatlin chair by Vladimir Tatlin for Nikol Italy, 1970s

Chromed steel tubular frame with black leather upholstered seat. 55cm x 70cm x 80cm high. Vladimir Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter, architect, and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin’s Tower, which he began in 1919. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement Designed by Russian constructivist Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) in 1927. The prototype for this chair was made initially in bent cane. From the 1950s it was manufactured by Nikol International, Italy with a tubular metal frame and leather seat. This chair was probably manufactured in the 1970s. The seat height is 52cm