Friday, April 18, 2014

Help! Are these Sam Avedon plastic chairs?


These lime green plastic beauties found their way home with me today! After a bit of searching around online, I am leaning toward them being by Sam Avedon for Alladin, from the early 1960's. The trouble is the only marking I can find on either of them is a small capital letter A. Nothing else! Anyone out there know anything about them? Any help is most appreciated... (They are destined for my antique mall booth, of course!)

5 comments:

Mr. Modtomic said...

Hi Mitzi.

I think you're ID is dead on. I've seen so many of these chairs here in the Midwest (in the basement of 2 out of 3 estate sales!) that I've never really thought that there might be an attribution to look for. Nicely done! Who knows, could these become the next Eames Shell chair?

Mitzi - Vintage Goodness said...

Thanks for checking them out, Mr. Modtomic! I think they might be the next Eames Shell chair for people who can't afford Eames Shell chairs? lol I jumped out of my comfort zone on them for sure, but I just loved the shape, and that color! I figured if nothing else they would catch people's attention as they were walking past my booth - you can't miss them, that's for sure... ;)

Anonymous said...

I had 2 of these in white. So much more comfortable than real tulip chairs! bigger too. I never i.d.'d them. I ended up selling them (I'm not really a reseller or anything, just a vintage stuff lover).
-PoppyEcho

Nicole said...

I LOVE these chairs. I would buy them in a heartbeat if I lived near you.!!!!

Unknown said...

Yes. They are the Sam Avedon Alladin Plastics chairs