Object Details
- Designer
- Alvar Aalto, Finnish, 1898–1976
- Manufacturer
- Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas, Turku, Finland, founded 1910
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Curved bent birch plywood seat joined to frame composed of ribbon-like curved, laminated bent birch elements forming legs/arms; form reinforced by solid birch cross pieces at curled ends of back and seat, and at rear legs.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Linda and Irwin Berman and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- ca. 1935–40
- Accession Number
- 2008-5-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Armchair
- Type
- Armchair
- Medium
- plywood, birch
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 63.5 x 60.5 x 83 cm (25 in. x 23 13/16 in. x 32 11/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Turku, Finland
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2008-5-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d5b4ea17-c840-48ca-b051-a3728d10f947
