Designer : Paul Laszlo

Paul László (1900–1993)

Paul László was born to a prosperous and cultured Hungarian family in the small town of Debrecen, and his grandparents were furniture manufacturers. He worked as an architect and designer in Vienna and Stuttgart before immigrating to Los Angeles in the mid-1930s. László brought a European sensibility to the land of sunshine and scenery, leaving his imprint on modern design and developing the audience for custom furniture of the highest quality.

László had a productive and remarkably long career, stretching close to sixty years. He took office space in Los Angeles’ fashionable Rodeo Drive, where he had the opportunity to design the building, landscaping, fabrics, and furnishings. From this elegant showroom, he sold home furnishings and modern art objects, as well as his services as an architect and designer. He consistently produced homes, each unique, that were distinctively modern, sumptuous, and comfortable. When László had his druthers, he controlled every detail of a project, down to the ashtrays.

His furniture was notably comfortable. He often used color boldly, and it is this, as much as the sumptuous textures of lacquer, veneers, marble, brick, flagstone, and gold leaf, not to mention the warm effect of hand-woven fabrics, that gave his homes variety as well as a distinctive character. László worked with a group of skilled craftsmen. For more than forty years, a firm of German artisans made most of his furniture. F.F. Kern created artistic wood carving, and Karin and Ernst van Leyden of Botega Karin produced the modernistic hand-painted glass found in many László projects. He worked with several weavers to create his textiles, including Maria Kipp and Dorothy Liebes in San Francisco.

Although he is most noted for his designs and labor-intensive custom-made interiors, László for brief periods did some commercial designing of mass-produced pieces, mostly for the Herman Miller firm in New York (1948–52), Brown Saltman (California), Heywood-Wakefield (Boston), and Ficks-Reed (Ohio).

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more pictures   print item   send item by email	item name : Turquoise Lacquered Chair by Paul Laszlo designers : Paul Laszlo Era : Circa 1950's Country of Origin : USA Materials : Finish > Lacquered,  Wood,  Textile > Linen item description : Turquoise Lacquered Chair by Paul Laszlo USA 1952 Magnificent paddle arm chair by Paul Laszlo. Original turquoise lacquer is accentuated with red, kid leather upholstery. This same design was used in Laszlo’s own home. From the Hudspeth Estate, Prineville OR. Documented in “Paul Laszlo” by Laszlo, pg 18. New buttersoft lambskin upholstery. Mint restored condition 30H  35.5W  31D  seat height 17 item # : TMF1063 price : Request Price
more pictures   print item   send item by email	item name : Club chair by Paul Laszlo designers : Paul Laszlo Era : Circa 1950's Country of Origin : USA Materials : Finish > Lacquered,  Textile > Leather item description : Club chair by Paul Laszlo 1950’s USA Leather and lacquered wood A classic form of Laszlo’s from the 1950’s upholstered in sumptuous navy kid leather with a complimentary lighter blue-lacquered wood legs and arms. If American Modernism was about comfort and class this handsome club chair is exemplary of its ideals. From the Hudspeth Estate, Prineville OR Mint Restored Condition 29 H 23 W 31 D item # : TMF999 price : Request Price