Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Vitra AG, Birsfelden, Switzerland, founded 1950
- Designer
- Shiro Kuramata, Japanese, 1934 - 1991
- Description
- Cubic-form armchair with curved arms and back, composed of welded sheets of steel mesh on four small cylindrical steel mesh feet.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Pulitzer Arts Foundation
- Designed 1986; this example manufactured 1999
- Accession Number
- 2016-40-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Armchair
- Type
- Armchair
- Medium
- Die-cut, assembled and welded nickel-plated steel rib mesh
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 72.2 × 95 × 83 cm (28 7/16 × 37 3/8 × 32 11/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Switzerland
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2016-40-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47b968f3a-f727-486a-be98-c1a1a06b4aa1
