Aviator armchairs

The aviator chairs are designer and vintage style living room seats. They are handcrafted with riveted aluminum plates, the seats are filled with high density foam and supported by springs. Comfortable and beautiful, they will bring joy to your home.

These relaxation furniture were in the 1950s made with parts of the fuselages of scrapped planes. After the Second World War, the industry and designers lacked materials, designers had the idea of ​​using parts of the Spitfire, and the Lockheed P-38, the latter being the version of Saint-Exupéry's plane.

In the United States in the 1950s, propeller-driven aircraft were technologically obsolete, replaced by those with jet engines. A large number of planes built during the Second World War ended up in the scrapyard, the parts of the fuselages were then recycled to make chairs for the home but also furniture, such as the desk with an airplane wing.

Metal panels are used for the sides of the furniture, the pilot's seat is placed between the plates that form the armrests. Thus an old decommissioned device finds a daily and popular use.

To help you make your choice, but also to learn more about aviator-style furniture, we have created a short guide containing the main answers:

1. What is the metal aviator chair?
2. The cigar chair
3. The club chair
4. How is an aviator chair made?
5. Which aviator chair to choose?

A metal Aviator chair 

While older models like the aviator club chair were made of genuine leather, we preferred to use synthetic materials that have the advantage of being comfortable and easy to clean. Without harming animals in the slightest, they have the appearance of vintage brown leather and aged leather.

The aluminum is riveted to the wooden or fiberglass frame depending on the type of furniture, especially on the egg chair. The ball-shaped pouf is also difficult to make, if the shell is made of fiber, attaching the metal panels is not an easy thing.

A complete living room combines two armchairs and an Aviator-style sofa, these sets can be completed with an aluminum coffee table. The decor is offered in industrial or vintage styles in brushed aluminum, while the polished surface offers a more artistic decoration. 

Aluminum reproductions 

The armchairs sold in our aviation furniture store have structures covered by aluminum plates imitating those of the fuselage of the aircraft of the Second World War. They give the same visual effect and are offered in different finishes. The metal panels are riveted by hand. 

Vintage living room sets are covered with mahogany-brown faux leather fabric, others with black faux leather. While for the designer models, the Ball chair or the Egg chair, the upholstery is in white or brown faux leather. Our store thus offers you the possibility of a mix of style and color with reproductions of leather aviator armchairs. 

Old airplanes have a riveted aluminum fuselage. That is why our models are also riveted to reproduce this vintage effect. The pilots' seats that were in brown leather have been replaced by brown mahogany polyurethane. They thus keep an incredible elegance for the decoration of your home regardless of the place and the room where they will be installed.

Ball chairs swivel and tilt, they are comfortable versions of the old models. The Cocoon style chair with an egg shape, isolates the guest in a bubble offering comfort and tranquility. 

An art deco inspiration

By wanting to recycle aviation parts, furniture designers invented a new style. If this type of furniture is then new, it recalls the art and decoration period of the 1900s and takes up the greatest classics of the Roaring Twenties.

With the version of a famous seat like the club chair, we create a new vintage type decoration, named "Aviator", we also take the Ball model for a design version, or the Egg chair. It fits perfectly into the interior of a villa or an office. They are upholstered with a faux leather fabric to make them affordable in black or vintage brown.

Un Aviator chair for sale in our store is a reproduction from the 1950s, whose creators were inspired by furniture from the early XNUMXth century. The coverings we offer are made of polyurethane, they take up the touch and visual of old aged leather armchairs, in brown or brown mahogany of old pieces. Aviation furniture such as the Egg chair or the Ball chair which swivel, are sold in black or white.

Cigar chairs from the 1950s

The cigar chair is a seat inspired by the club chairs that could be found in cigar smoking clubs. The shape of this seat took the oval shape of a cigar. This type of seat was particularly popular in the interiors of Havana clubs in the 1950s. 

The Aviator model cigar chair is covered on its wooden frame with metal. The old seats were covered with aluminum plates from scrapped planes. The reproductions are also provided with aluminum metal plates that imitate the panels of aircraft with rivets. The visual is identical to the old furniture, but the structure is also designed with the same care, so the frames are solid wood often composed of rubber, the foams of the seats and backs are comfortable and thick.

To rivet each plate in the same way as military airplanes made with parts of the aircraft fuselage, they are riveted by hand. 

With a pair of glasses and a cigar, you'll feel like you've stepped back in time while sitting comfortably in this 1950s chair. 

A vintage club chair 

The elegance of this 1950s aviator club chair was invented by American designers after World War II. Many aircraft were scrapped in the early 1950s, to be replaced by jet planes. 

Models like the Spitfire or the Lockheed P-38 Lightning which was Saint-Exupéry's plane have an aluminum fuselage, designers looking for cheap materials, were able to take advantage of an abundance of spare parts. They create a wide choice of furniture with aviation parts, to invent unique seats, such as the "Concord sofa".

Aviator style club chairs can be installed in any room of your house with all kinds of styles and furniture, for a vintage or industrial effect decor. 

The brown riveted aluminum club sofas are designed with the same features, shapes and coverings, so they are in perfect harmony with the seats that accompany them. The place of manufacture that was initially in the United States, it is gradually exported to cover the entire planet conquered by this design style. 

A set for the living room with a sofa and a coffee table

Living rooms can be decorated with 3-seater sofas, but also 2-seater metal sofas to harmonize the decoration of your home. You can thus make a large living room set composed of several sofas and armchairs. 

To increase your number of seats, aviator poufs in different colors are on sale. The poufs benefit from the same assembly technique as the living room sets, with a fiberglass structure covered with hand-riveted aluminum plates. The exterior faces of the furniture take up the visual of the aircraft fuselage. 

Ottoman poufs allow you to stretch out and rest your feet. They look great with a living room set, for each style you will find the corresponding model.

For living rooms, you will find in our collection aluminum coffee tables, they are large surfaces and offer great solidity. Easy to clean, you can safely place drinks and decorative objects on its metal surface. 

The workspace is not forgotten, with an Aviator office chair that swivels and some of which are reclining. 

The making of aviator style armchairs

The furniture is assembled in a handcrafted way with quality materials. The frame is assembled with uprights and crosspieces in rubberwood, completed with medium density wood panels in wood fiber. The panels are covered with riveted aluminum plates.  

The seats and backs have a thick polyurethane foam padding, supported by elastic straps and flat iron springs, to ensure great seating comfort. The coverings are available in brown, black, and white. 

The designer office chairs have a fiberglass structure, the ball chair is rotatable for comfortable seating in front of a workspace. 

If you have antique or modern furniture, they will look great in your living room. You can put them together to create a varied and diverse decoration with designer and industrial furniture, but also leather Chesterfield sofas of the same color

The shapes of great elegance are studied to take up the shape of the pilot seats, they bring a unique decoration to your home, you will only be missing the glasses.

Cheap aviator chairs

The advantage of choosing a synthetic material for the seat and backrest covering is that the price immediately becomes more attractive, but not only that:

• The fabric is easy to care for
• An aesthetic identical to leather
• Excellent comfort
• A wide choice of colors
• An article thus becomes in line with the current trend, there is no animal product.

The items sold in our store meet all these criteria, we preferred to choose a synthetic material to upholster them, they are as beautiful and comfortable as those in aged leather.

The coverings are of high quality, both soft to provide a comfortable seat and solid to last over time. The stitching is done as on luxury leather models.

The structures are made of wood in order to keep a traditional setting, the metal plates are thick and contribute to the beauty of the furniture.

You can come to our store and sit in our display models, you will see the excellence of our products, you can sometimes take it away and thus save on transport costs.

Choosing an aviator chair

For a house with a vintage or industrial decor, prefer a brushed aluminum model. The metal thus worked always leaves a mirror effect, but this is attenuated by brushing, to obtain a perfect finish the brushing of our armchairs is done by hand. The egg aviator armchair also called Egg chair is very popular for designer interiors.

The seats, backrests and armrests are filled with foam with a density of 25 to 35 kg, thus ensuring comfortable seating, whether for office models which require a specific seat height, or for living room seats.

While for a modern style, choose a polished aluminum model, these seats will bring a designer style to your interior. The polishing of our products is of mirror quality, this type of finish is undoubtedly the best for a designer effect.

If your living room offers a large surface area, combine 3-seater sofas with 2-seater sofas, you can also increase your number of seats with poufs and aviator stools. Delivery in France of your living room set is fast within six working days.

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