Armchair, Model No. 1105 | Yale University Art Gallery

1940

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto's designs of the early 1930s for bent plywood furniture immediately challenged German steel tube furniture as icons of modernism. His furniture became available in America in the late 1930s, and in 1940 he opened a retail outlet, Artek-Pascoe, in New York City. This chair by Ewald Holtkamp was part of a large order purchased from Artek-Pascoe in 1941 or 1942 to furnish a modern house in Farmington, Connecticut.

Medium: Laminated maple plywood and maple with canvas webbing
Dimensions: 32 1/4 × 23 3/4 × 23 3/4 in. (81.9 × 60.3 × 60.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Keith Smith, Jr., B.A. 1928
Accession Number: 1981.73.3
Geography: Made in Long Island City, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Purchased by Keith Smith, Jr., Farmington, Conn., ca. 1941-81

Bibliography

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 362, no. 253

"Acquisitions 1981," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 3 (Winter 1983), 72

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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Object/Work type

armchairs

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