Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978)
Harry Bertoia's approach to design was born of an intense, lifelong awareness and study of nature. He is perhaps best known for his sculptures; and indeed his chairs are quintissentially scuptural artworks designed to support the human body.
Opening his own metal workshop in 1939, he taught jewelery design and metal work. Later, as the war effort made emtal a rare and very expensive commodity he began to focus his efforts on jewelery making, even designing and creating a wedding ring forCharles and Ray Eames. Later in 1943, he was to work with Charles and Ray for the Evans Product Company, where they experimented on molded-plywood seating.