Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Curved back and seat made of a single gray-white metal sheet with slight ripples throughout (like a handkerchief) mouned on a rectalinear white tubular metal base with a stretcher spanning the front legs.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Massimo Vignelli, Italian, active USA, 1931–2014
- Lella Vignelli, Italian, 1934 - 2016
- Design Team member
- David Law, American, 1937 – 2003
- Manufacturer
- Knoll Textiles, New York, New York, USA, founded 1947
- Date
- 1982–87
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Knoll Group
- Medium
- Bent enamelled tubular metal, composition
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 74.1 x 52.4 x 49.5 cm (29 3/16 x 20 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Type
- models and prototypes
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Prototype for a chair
- Type
- Prototype for a chair
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