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1950s Swiss Industrial Design: Armin Wirth's Nesting Aluflex Chairs

By Rain Noe - March 25

in Furniture Design

These unusual-looking Aluflex chairs were designed in 1951, by Swiss industrial designer Armin Wirth.

Originally designed for a school in Zurich, the chairs featured a seat that folded upwards. This allowed the chairs to be nested for storage.

The aluminum legs are lightweight but sturdy. The seats and backs are plywood.

While the Aluflex chairs are often erroneously referred to as "stacking" chairs, they don't actually stack, just nest.

These had a pretty decent production run, lasting into the 1960s, by Swiss manufacturer Hans Zollinger Söhne. And the 75-year-old design is robust enough that you can still find surviving examples on vintage reseller websites.

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