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EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)
EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)
EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)
EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)
EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)
EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)
EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)

 Gerrit Veenendaal

EASY CHAIR - With Armrests - Black (Sale)

Sale price €196,00 Regular price €245,00
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Direct Select furniture, at a reduced price.

This chair is part of the Lensvelt Direct Select collection and is offered at a reduced price. It consists of original project furniture from overstock. Completely new and ready for immediate delivery, with the quality you expect from Lensvelt. 

The new Gerrit Veenendaal chair collection for Lensvelt.

The lesser known but highly creative Gerrit Veenendaal ( 18 March 1920 –  23 February 2007) designed several iconic chairs for Kembo.

Kembo stood for " Kom eerst maar bij ons’ (Come to us first)," the company that famous furniture maker W.H. Gispen set up with his cousin-in-law Ru Meijer in 1953.

The origin of the Gerrit Veenendaal chair

Our current Easy Chair is inspired by a 1958 design by Gerrit Veenendaal, a chair from Kembo's collection, available in several variants: a dining chair with or without plastic armrests (G4 and G3). And a more luxurious low version with a seat made of thicker and more comfortable polyether, also available with or without wooden armrests (G8 and G7).

Story

Who was Gerrit Veenendaal

Gerrit Veenendaal (1920-2007) was an electrician by profession when he married Maartje Vink (1916-2000) in 1944. They had two sons: Hendrik (1939) and Frederik (1940). After completing his education at the technical school, Veenendaal worked at the Gazelle bicycle factory in his hometown of Dieren.

On the eve of the German invasion of the Netherlands, he was drafted as a military soldier and fought in the Battle of the Grebbeberg. After the capitulation, he was made a prisoner of war and transported to Neubrandenburg in East Germany to work. At the end of the war, after joining the Internal Armed Forces, he contributed to the liberation of the city of Groningen in April 1945.

After the war, Gerrit and his brother Henk started a factory in rubber grips for bicycle handlebars. The factory grew into Recticel, a factory that produced polyether and foam rubber for mattresses, furniture and car seats. One of its customers was Kembo, in The Hague.

The Kembo factory in Rhenen was located in an old factory hall of Recticel, a foam rubber factory.  After a fire in July 1957, several Recticel employees transferred to Kembo's upholstery department. Including Gerrit: the brother of director Hendrik Veenendaal. Gerrit became head of production, steelwork and upholstery at Kembo. The design of the Kembo chair dates from this period.

Specifications

Artikelnummer V5-2-090----051

Designer: Gerrit Veenendaal

Version: Low Chair

Leg ends: Hard Leg Ends

Frame Color: Black Frame (RAL9005)

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