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.

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.