Side chair, "650 Line" | Yale University Art Gallery

designed 1941, manufactured 1943–ca. 1960; this example 1949–51

Danish designer Jens Risom was an important early collaborator with the German-born furniture manufacturer Hans Knoll. This chair was the first design resulting from their partnership to go into production. During World War II, Risom focused on designing furniture out of noncritical materials that could be sold in a wartime market. The leather lacing on the seat was a more expensive feature than the cotton army-surplus webbing that was typically used on these chairs.

Medium: Probably birch and leather
Dimensions: 30 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 20 in. (77.47 × 44.45 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Jens Risom
Accession Number: 2003.120.1
Geography: Designed in New York, New York, Manufactured in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Jens Risom, New Canaan, Conn., 1949-51 to 2003

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), 395, no. 279

"Acquisitions 2003," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 128–29, ill.

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Marks

“Jens Risom [script],” in pen on inner face of rear seat rail; “KNOLL / KNOLL ASSOCI [illegible] / 593 MADISON [illegible],” printed on degraded label affixed to inner face of rear seat rail

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