Series of 6 stackable industrial chairs, Roland Rainer for Emil & Alfred Pollak, ca 1950

Series of 6 chairs with modernist design stacks in beech wood and multiplex, attributed to roland rainer, edition emile & alfred pollak in Austria around 1951. Average condition, ideally to restore and varnish. In the taste of the armchairs "easy armchair" of pierre jeanneret. Biography: Roland Rainer decided to become an architect at the age. 18 years old. He studied at the Technical University of Vienna, his thesis was on karlsplatz in Vienna. He was then called upon to work at several universities: the Technical University of Berlin, the Technical University of Brunswick, the Technion and the Technical University of Munich. In 1953, Rainer became Professor for Housing, Urban Planning and Land Use Planning at the University of Hanover. In 1954, he became a professor of structural engineering at the Technical University of Graz, which forced him to commute between graz and hanover. From 1956 to 1962, he produced one of his most important works. Vienna, the wiener stadthalle. In. In 1958, he was given the task of drawing up zoning plans by the Vienna City Council. In 1967 he participated in the international competition for the design of the urban plan of the district of bratislava - petrzalka in Slovakia. In 1987, rainer was president of the Curia for the Art of Austrian Decoration of Science and Art. He was also a constant critic of environmental destruction and bad construction. His achievements are currently highly sought after and collected.

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