Wear consistent with age and use.
« Butaca Torres Clavé » armchair by Josep Torres Clavé - Mobles 114 - 1990s
Measures : 72x80cm H:73cm SH:37cm
Materials : Beechwood - Woven rushMagnificent vintage Spanish rationalist armchair. Frame in patinated beechwood, seat and back in woven rush.
1990 edition by Mobles 114 (the only manufacturer with the Torres Clavé patent).
In 1934, the architect Josep Torres Clavé designed the armchair model GATCPAC or Torres Clavé as part of the furniture that was to house the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic designed by Josep Lluís Sert at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. The seats were exhibited in Pablo Picasso's Guernica room and other works by Alexander Calder or Joan Miró.
The design is inspired by traditional Balearic chairs with popular roots, reinterpreted by Torres Clavé from a rationalist perspective.
The GATCPAC armchair was designed by this group of Catalan architects and technicians in 1934. "Mobles114", a Barcelona company founded in 1973 and dedicated to contemporary furniture, has relaunched it since the 1990's under the name of "Butaca Torres Clavé", named after Josep Torres Clavé (1906-1939), one of the founders and main partners of GATCPAC, under the direction of his son. He preserves several sketches of this model. A GATCPAC armchair can be seen in Barcelona's Museu del Disseny
