Dieter Rams for Vitsoe high back lounge chair, model rz60, Germany 1960's

Very rare lounge chair designed by Dieter Rams for Vitsoe. We don't see this high back version a lot, let a lone with arm rests.

The chair has been reupholstered in cognac faux-leather.
The metal has some minimal traces of use.

Dieter Rams (Wiesbaden, May 20, 1932) is a German furniture maker, architect and industrial designer. The way in which Rams combines these professions makes him one of the most renowned product designers in Germany. Rams studied architecture and interior design at the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden from 1947 to 1953. In 1948 he did a furniture making practical. In 1953 he completed his studies in architecture and furniture making. The following two years he worked at the architectural firm Otto Apel in Frankfurt am Main and in 1955 a collaboration between Rams and Braun AG began. One of his first designs for Braun, together with Hans Gugelot and Wilhelm Wagenfeld, was the SK4, a combination of a record player and a radio. It was a white cupboard with a transparent lid, which was soon nicknamed Schneewitchensarg ("Snow White's coffin"). In 1956, Rams made its first product design. Furniture designs for Otto Zapf followed in 1957. This successful series of furniture and systems was put into production by Wiese Vitsø in the 1960s. Due to the growing international success of the designs for Braun, Rams was appointed head of the product design department in 1961. Since 1981, Dieter Rams has been professor of industrial design at the Academy of Visual Arts in Hamburg. In 1984 he became chairman of the Rat für Formgebung in Frankfurt. During this period, Rams also drew up his Ten Principles for Good Design. According to these rules, according to Rams, well-designed furniture is designed from one paradoxical rationale: A good design is designed as little as possible. His goal of eliminating the superfluous so that the essential emerges makes the forms calm, understandable and pleasant and ensures that they can last a long time.