Long Chair
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Isokon Furniture Company, London, England, United Kingdom, 1935–1939
- Designer
- Marcel Breuer, American, b. Hungary, 1902–1981
- Description
- The undulating single panel seat starting from a back-curved head rest and descending on an angled plane to the bottom of spine before heading up to bend at the knee area and descending slightly at calf length, all supported between two curvilinear arms, descending to a cross bar and continuing to form back legs, connecting at the cross brace to seat supports of trapezoidal shape.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of George R. Kravis II, Anonymous Donor, and Judy Francis Zankel
- 1936
- Accession Number
- 2013-17-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- chair
- Type
- chair
- Medium
- birch (frame), birch-faced plywood (seat)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 74 x 62.6 x 136 cm (29 1/8 x 24 5/8 x 53 9/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Estonia
- London, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2013-17-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq411171130-f458-4d02-9b28-76ec460e7a76
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