Model 70 Womb Chair and Ottoman with "Puli" Pattern Upholstery Yale University Art Gallery

designed and introduced 1948; this example 1951–57

Medium: Enameled tubular steel, latex foam rubber, and probably fiberglass; cotton, linen, jute, wool and rayon upholstery
Dimensions: 34 5/16 × 39 × 34 1/16 in. (87.2 × 99.1 × 86.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Rosalie M. Berberian, M.P.H. 1967, M.Phil. 1980
Accession Number: 1992.64.1.1-.2
Geography: Made in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania; or East Greenville, Pennsylvania; Designed in Washington D.C.; Designed in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Rosalie M. Berberian, New Haven, Conn., by 1992

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), 400, no. 284

Paul Makovsky et al., Knoll Textiles, 1945–2010, ed. Earl Martin (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011), 419, no. 106, ill.

Christina Borger, "Hidden Treasures," New Haven Register (December 13, 2009), E3

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

ottomans, womb chairs

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