Side Chair

Architecture and Design

designed 1952; made 1955

Harry Bertoia
American, born Italy, 1915–1978
Manufactured by Knoll Associates, Inc.,
American, founded 1938
East Greenville, Pennsylvania

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Architecture and Design

Artist: Harry Bertoia
Title: Side Chair
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Designed 1952
Medium: Steel and naugahyde
Dimensions: 80.7 × 53.3 × 54.6 cm (31 3/4 × 21 × 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor
Reference Number: 1984.1390
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Harry Bertoia / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 344–46, cat. 178 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Design Episodes: The Modern Chair, Apr 23–Oct 2, 2016 (no cat.).

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