About This Artwork

Designed by Eero Saarinen
American, 1910-1961
Manufactured by Knoll Associates, Inc.

Armchair, 1955/57

Fiberglass-reinforced plastic and lacquered aluminum with silk upholstery
80.7 x 65.7 x 58.4 cm (31 3/4 x 25 7/8 x 23 in.)
Cast raised inscription on base: "BR 50"
Gift of Knoll International, 1971.15

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 97-98, cat. 29.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 183.