Oka Chair
Object Details
- Designer
- Michele Oka Doner, American, b. 1945
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Flat disk seat on four straight cylindrical legs; back composed of cast bronze painter’s palette decorated with spirals; "crest rail" consisting of a horizontal rod, a headless figure below the rod, to left of palette, and six different sized heads sitting on the rod; three cast bronze heads situated between the seat and back, supporting the back, with a fourth head to the right.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hootkin and Maria Friedrich
- 1989
- Accession Number
- 1991-73-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- side chair
- Type
- side chair
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 87 x 48 x 49 cm (34 1/4 x 18 7/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
- made in
- 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_1991-73-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f91c6ee0-701c-419f-9d7b-4b10d2c6aa3b
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