The palace of Maharajah Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur was located in faraway India, yet it was equipped with the latest in modern finesse from a western lifestyle. This included a billiard room and a bar in an avant-garde style where the walls shimmered blue and silver and stainless steel, lacquer and leather were the dominating materials. The bar stool designed by Eckart Muthesius for this place is even today, nearly 90 years later, a fascinating and individual design and could be placed in any stylish bar. A true modern classic never dies.
A barstool with an exotic history. Who would assign this functional design to the billiard room in the palace of an Indian maharajah?
Stool. Frame chrome-plated tubular steel. Beech seat frame. Upholstery polyurethane with polyester fibre. Cover in fabric or leather. Plastic gliders in black.
Chrome-plated
Fabric group 1
Nature
Orange
Grey
Black
Fabric group 2
Linen
Smoke
Granite
Midnight
Plum
Fabric group 3
Fabric group 4
581
180
120
220
280
170
771
971
871
681
671
893
154
106
224
793
191
356
944
791
671
584
813
733
213
353
193
913
973
837
773
783
683
792
582
233
143
283
952
182
772
652
612
512
Fabric group 5
110
376
113
116
368
180
224
960
773
764
687
Leather
Black
Grey
Anthracite
White
Chocolate
Cognac
Blue
Bordeaux
Black
Terra
Coconut
Enzian
Rucola
All dimensions are in the unit cm.
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At the age of 24, in 1933, architect Eckart Muthesius already created a complete work of modernist art: For the Manik Bagh palace of the Maharajah of Indore, he not only designed the architecture but also part of the furniture, and combined it with the progressive designs by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, and Eileen Gray.
Paris Exibition:
The "Eileen Gray - Non Conformist" exhibition will be extended until 26 February!!