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Object Timeline

1943

  • Work on this object began.

1953

  • Work on this object ended.

2013

2014

2015

2026

  • You found it!

Chair (USA)

This is a chair. It is dated ca. 1948 and we acquired it in 2013. Its medium is slumped plate glass, metal, textile. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

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This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled The Miracle of Glass.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of George R. Kravis II and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.

  • Drawing, Design for Sportshack
  • brush and gouache, black ink, airbrush over stencil, graphite on illustration....
  • Gift of Donald Deskey.
  • 1988-101-1515

Our curators have highlighted 11 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Model 71 Armchair
  • fiberglass-reinforced plastic, plywood, chromed steel, upholstery, latex foam.
  • Gift of Max Pine.
  • 2011-49-1
  • Chair (USA)
  • bronze-plated steel, nylon upholstery.
  • Gift of Knoll Associates, Inc..
  • 1971-16-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 71.8 x 54 x 56.5 cm (28 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Chair (USA); slumped plate glass, metal, textile; H x W x D: 71.8 x 54 x 56.5 cm (28 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of George R. Kravis II and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2013-1-1

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