Harry Bertoia Seating

The Asymmetric lounge is the most sculptural of Harry Bertoia’s 1952 wire chair collection. The chair never made it beyond a prototype until 2005, when Knoll, with help from Bertoia’...

The Asymmetric lounge is the most sculptural of Harry Bertoia’s 1952 wire chair collection. The chair never made it beyond a prototype until 2005, when Knoll, with help from Bertoia’...

Design Harry Bertoia, 1953 Welded steel rods Black textile cushion. Made in USA by Knoll Harry Bertoia's 1950 experiment with bending metal rods into practical art produced a revere...

To create his iconic Bertoia Seating collection, Harry Bertoia transformed Industrial wire rods into new forms. The events that made this work possible began a decade earlier at Cranbrook Academy of Art, when he met Florence Knoll. Years later, the Italian-born designer was invited to work for Florence and her husband, Hans. Bertoia was given the freedom to work on whatever suited him, without being held to a strict agenda. This Seat Pad (1952) was designed to fit the Bertoia Asymmetric Chaise...