Diamond chair by Harry Bertoia – Code 777

With his collection of iconic chairs, Harry Bertoia has transformed the industrial iron rod into a new form of furniture. What made this work possible began about ten years earlier, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where Bertoia met Florence Knoll (Floren Schust at the time). Years later, the designer of Italian origin was invited to work for Florence and his wife, Hans Knoll. Bertoia was given total freedom to work, on whatever he felt comfortable with, without feeling bound by any pre-established design canon. The result of this agreement was the 1952 Bertoia seating collection.
Although characterized by an apparently delicate filigree structure, it is an extremely solid series, the seats, aerial, are as if sculpted from steel rod.
In his art, Bertoia has experimented with open forms and metalworking; these chairs represent an extension of this work.
“If you look at the chairs, they are made mainly of air, like sculpture,” says Bertoia. “Space passes through them”
After designing his seating collection, Bertoia returned to focus mainly on sculpture.

Size: 85 x 70 x h. sed. 39 / h. backs. 75

Code 777