Side Chair
- Maker
- Knoll Associates, New York, New York, founded 1938, East Greenville, Pennsylvania, founded 1938
- Date
- designed 1952
- Classification
- Furniture
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 28 3/4 x 21 3/8 x 23 1/16 in. (73 x 54.3 x 58.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- © Harry Bertoia / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
permission required - Object Number
- 280:1979
NOTES
This side chair, made of vinyl-coated steel wires and black-painted steel rods, won instant praise for its beauty and practicality when it was unveiled in New York in 1952. Harry Bertoia, who was first and foremost a sculptor, designed a collection of wire furniture, including the Diamond, Bird, and Square backed-chairs, for the modern furniture manufacturer Knoll Associates, Inc. This example, with its original orange cushion, was used in the City Art Museum’s (now the Saint Louis Art Museum) café for two years before transitioning to office furniture.
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