Bertoia, Harry (bĕrtoi`yə), 1915–78, American sculptor and furniture designer, b. Italy. Bertoia emigrated to the United States in 1933 and joined Knoll International (1950). There he designed chairs that brought him wide acclaim. Important examples of his sculptural works are a structural screen for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, New York City, and a bronze panel at Dulles International Airport, Washington, D.C.
(born March 10, 1915, San Lorenzo, Italy—died Nov. 6, 1978, Barto, Pa., U.S.) Italian-born U.S. sculptor and designer. He attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art and later taught there (1937–43). He worked in California with designer Charles Eames before joining Knoll Associates in New York City in 1950. His achievements there included the Diamond Chair (commonly known as the Bertoia chair), made of polished steel wire and covered with elastic Naugahyde upholstery. He also produced “sound sculptures” that were activated by the wind and numerous works for corporations and public spaces.
Bertoia, Harry (b. Enrico) (1915–78) sculptor, designer; born in San Lorenzo, Italy. He emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1930 and studied (1937–39) and then taught painting and metal crafts at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) (1939–43). He worked for the Evans Products Company, Venice, Calif., (1943–46), then established his own workshop in Bally, Pa. Although he regarded himself as primarily a sculptor, he was known for his early cubist-influenced silver coffee and tea services, and for his furniture, especially the "Bertoia chair" (1952), with its slender metal legs and frame and mesh-like seat.
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The Diamond chair designed by Harry Bertoia, 1952
(credit: Courtesy of The Knoll Group)
Bertoia, Harry (b. Enrico) (1915–78) sculptor, designer; born in San Lorenzo, Italy. He emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1930 and studied (1937–39) and then taught painting and metal crafts at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) (1939–43). He worked for the Evans Products Company, Venice, Calif., (1943–46), then established his own workshop in Bally, Pa. Although he regarded himself as primarily a sculptor, he was known for his early cubist-influenced silver coffee and tea services, and for his furniture, especially the "Bertoia chair" (1952), with its slender metal legs and frame and mesh-like seat.
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