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American Decorative Arts
Designer: Eero Saarinen, American, born Finland, 1910–1961
Manufacturer: Knoll Inc., American, founded 1938
Side Chair
designed 1956
Aluminum base, fused plastic finish, molded plastic shell reinforced with fiberglass, upholstered seat cushion
31 3/4 × 19 1/2 × 16 3/4 in. (80.6 × 49.5 × 42.5 cm)
seat: 16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm)
seat: 16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1975.54.2b
This chair is from Eero Saarinen’s Single Pedestal Furniture series, which included an armchair and a variety of tables. Although the seat of the chair is plastic and the base is aluminum, they appear to be one material and were Saarinen’s answer to a “slum of legs.”
Geography:
Made in East Greenville, Pennsylvania
Status:
On view
Culture:
American
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Furniture
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 1975,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 36, no. 1 (Fall 1976): 53.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
