04/12/2023
Blue Lagoons 🔵- Austere look for a vintage, primitive garden lawn chair made out of metal. These chairs have a frame made out of aluminum with a distressed coat of blue paint, giving the piece a unique, worn-off appearance. They have 2 C-shaped legs and arms in one. A seat is squarish and wide, a mid-height vertically grooved fullback - semi-oval.
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Dot" chair 1953-60
This next style has a zillion holes on the seat back and seat bottom and was advertized as ventilated and air conditioned. Also the tubing on the arms is frayed out a bit. Variations of this style where made to circa 1960.
This chair design as well as many Arvin products in the early 1950's (such as dinette sets and heaters) were designed by Raymond Loewy as noted by one of the newspaper ads below. Earl Booth had designed all the prior styles and worked for Arvin for 28 years as their chief engineer of metal furniture. Nothing against Raymond, but his Dot chair was the demise of the all metal outdoor furniture for Arvin.
They tried a variety of Dot patterns during this period. In the late 1950's, they dabbled with settees and gliders; however, this style had already been phased out by most makers such as Shott, Logan, and Southern Household.