About this artwork
This lightweight chaise features a novel, angled tubular aluminum frame that enables the user to move from a seated to a reclining position with just a slight shift of body weight. First produced in 1947 by Bartolucci and Waldheim, graduates of the Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of Design, the chair quickly became associated with a new ideal of postwar leisure in the United States. This innovative design is a low-cost adaption of modernist experimentation with the lounge chair for a new suburban context.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Edgar Bartolucci
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Title
- Barwa Chair
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Designed 1950
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Medium
- Aluminum and canvas
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Dimensions
- 104 × 129.5 × 51 cm (41 × 51 × 20 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Stanley Tigerman and Margaret McCurry
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Reference Number
- 2017.413
Extended information about this artwork
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