Bertoia Bar Stool (chrome)
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Design Bertoia Harry
Dimensions (D褏W褏H): 60*52*104
Seat height: 76 cm
Legs Type: Metal
Seat material: Metal
Legs Color: Chrome
Seat color: Chrome metal / Black cushion
With his iconic seating collection, Harry Bertoia transformed industrial wire rods into a new furniture form. The events that made this work possible began a decade earlier at Cranbrook Academy of Art, when Bertoia met Florence Knoll (then Florence Schust). Years later, the Italian-born designer was invited to work for Florence and her husband, Hans Knoll. Bertoia was given the freedom to work on whatever suited him, without being held to a strict design agenda, and the result of this arrangement was the Bertoia Seating Collection (1952). Featuring a delicate filigreed appearance that鈥檚 supremely strong, these airy seats are sculpted out of steel rods. In his art, Bertoia experimented with open forms and metal work, and these chairs were an extension of that work. 鈥淚f you look at the chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture,鈥 said Bertoia. 鈥淪pace passes through them.鈥 After designing his seating collection, Bertoia returned to focusing mostly on sculpture