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Object Details
- Designer
- Frank O. Gehry, American, b. Canada, 1929
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Wide, curved, open-form lounge chair made of laminated shaped strips of corrugated cardboard; masonite layer on left and right sides. Seat and back are formed by the edges of layered cardboard strips; rectangular base.
- Credit Line
- Gift of William Woolfenden
- ca. 1971
- Accession Number
- 1988-79-2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Lounge chair
- Type
- Lounge chair
- Medium
- Cut corrugated cardboard, masonite
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 76 x 59.5 x 99 cm (29 15/16 in. x 23 7/16 in. x 39 in.)
- made in
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1988-79-2
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq482c15e8e-da05-4c8b-8e34-7f377201c4a8
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