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Harry Bertoia (1915-1978)
Ensemble de 4 Diamond chairs
Treillis de fil d’acier, cuir noir
H:76cm L:54cm P:53cm
Knoll, Etats-Unis, années 1960
La Diamond chair, une forme fluide et sculpturale réalisée à partir d’un treillis en acier soudé.
Les propres mots de Bertoia, « If you look at these chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture. Space passes right through them. »
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer.
At the age of 15, given the choice to stay in drought ridden Italy or move to Detroit, Harry chose to adventure to America and live with his older brother, Oreste. After learning the language, he studied art and design and learned the skill of handmade jewelry making.
In 1936 he attended the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, now known as the College for Creative Studies.
The following year in 1937 he received a scholarship to study at the Cranbrook Academy of Art where he encountered Walter Gropius, Edmund N. Bacon and Ray and Charles Eames and Florence Knoll for the first time.
In 1943 he married Brigitta Valentiner, and then moved to California to work for Charles and Ray Eames at the Molded Plywood Division of the Evans Product Company.
In 1950, he was invited to move to Pennsylvania to work with Hans and Florence Knoll. (Florence was also a Cranbrook Graduate) During this period he designed five wire pieces that became known as the Bertoia Collection for Knoll. Among these was the famous diamond chair.
