SOLD Pair Of Vintage Ikea Poäng Poem Armchairs & Matching Footstool Tan Brown Leather Mid Century Retro MCM

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Pair Of Vintage Ikea Poäng Poem Armchairs & Matching Footstool Tan Brown Leather Mid Century Retro MCM

Pair of vintage Ikea early Poäng Poem armchairs and matching footstool designed by Noboru Nakamura, designed during the mid 1970s and this beautiful set manufactured in the early 90s in Sweden.

Supported on a curved bentwood beech ply frame with thick cognac tan leather upholstery, which shows off its age perfectly.

Dimensions
Height - 103cm
Width - 68cm
Depth - 82cm

Poem was inspired by ground-breaking designers like Bruno Mathsson and Alvar Aalto. But it commanded a far lower price. Lars Engman, who later became head of design at IKEA, talked about how it came about: “It was 1975, and I had just started working on easy chairs and armchairs at IKEA. In the designers’ room, Noboru Nakamura was sitting in the corner looking a bit abandoned. So I went up to him and said maybe we should make an armchair”.

By then, Noboru Nakamura had been living in Sweden for a couple of years, and was familiar with the Scandinavian design heritage. Together, he and Lars Engman starting working on an armchair that was intended to be like Mathsson’s and Aalto’s in terms of style. But of course, the price had to be lower. The solution was to order the wooden parts, the cushions and the seating units from different factories, to keep the price as low as possible. Therefore, POEM was also packaged and sold in three parcels.

The armchair was launched in 1976. It became an immediate sales success, and a long-term faithful product. It stayed in the range as POEM right up until 1990. And in 1991 its successor was launched: POÄNG, a modernised version where the 15-year-old design had been updated to give even better value for money.

Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad expressed an affinity for the Poäng and said in 2006 that he had owned the same one for 32 years.

The design of both the Poem and Poäng chairs resemble that of the 'Armchair 406', created by the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto in 1939, as well as the 'Pernilla' armchair designed by Swedish architect Bruno Mathsson in 1944.

The chair was first launched in 1976 under the name "Poem". Since then, IKEA has changed the design several times. It was renamed "Poäng" in 1992, and the seat frame was changed from tubular steel to wood, which allowed the chair to be flat-packed, resulting in a 21% price reduction.

Ikea has also updated the color, pattern, and material of the upholstery to account for changing customer preferences.

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Please note that vintage furniture may have some slight imperfections, which is to be expected in keeping with its age, as we do not offer returns on items sold.