Vintage Pair of Molded Plywood Designed by Norman Cherner for Plycraft Pretzel Chairs

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Pair of beautiful vintage Mid-century Modern Pretzel side chairs designed by Norman Cherner and manufactured by Plycraft Inc.
Molded plywood … Read more Pair of beautiful vintage Mid-century Modern Pretzel side chairs designed by Norman Cherner and manufactured by Plycraft Inc.
Molded plywood and lightweight chair in amazing condition, one retains original label.
The Pretzel chair has a distinctive look and also sustains a graduated thickness of the plywood on its design.
Herman Miller ceased production of the chair and recommended that Plycraft hire Cherner to design another plywood chair that would make use of the production materials and techniques that Plycraft still had. After Cherner had turned in his design, however, he was told that they had decided to scrap the project.

Cherner would later end up in a New York furniture showroom where he saw his own design for sale, attributed to the designer ‘Bernardo’. Cherner ended up suing Plycraft in 1961 as it was revealed that the owner of Plycraft, Paul Goldman, had unceremoniously lied to him and stolen his design to produce it under a fictitious name. He won, and Cherner got royalties and was properly credited, but the Cherner chairs were out of production by the early 1970s. See less