Knoll Bertoia Side Chair

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Knoll bertoia side chair. The beautiful leather upholstery highlights the sculptural character of the classic bertoia design and features a 1 5 flange and exposed running stitch detail along the outside edge of the. It was strong yet delicate in appearance as well as an immediate commercial success. Italian artist and furniture designer harry bertoia designed the patented diamond chair for knoll in 1952. While the comments below are specific to the 420 side chair they generally apply to the others as well.

Bertoia side chair item share this harry bertoia 1952. Bertoia found sublime grace in an industrial material creating a design that works with every decor in every room. Anything can break but not everything can be repaired. Fortunately bertoia chairs usually can be.

The bertoia side chair is an icon of mid century modern design. Keep in mind that all bertoia production chairs were welded more accurately. His career began in the 1930s as a student at the cranbrook academy of art where he re established the metalworking studio and as head of that. Broken welds the most common structural problem is broken welds especially on chairs made in the early 50s.

Knoll will offer both the 1952 side chair by harry bertoia and the reintroduced 1947 hairpin stacking table by florence knoll in a special signature pink powder coat finish. We offer hundreds of upholstery options for your bertoia wire chairs. We look at two places which 99 of the time positively identify genuine knoll chairs from the knock offs. Harry bertoia was a complete and gifted artist.

Vinyl leather knoll fabrics and dozens of vintage designs by eames alexander girard and verner panton. On the knoll chairs the top basket wire is a fair curve that mimics the curvature of the top of rim wire.