Armchair
Paul Rudolph
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Chrome-plated steel, other metals, Lucite
DATES
Designed 1968
DIMENSIONS
26 x 31 x 29 in. (66 x 78.7 x 73.7 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
Metal castors, stamped: 'SHEPHERD/PROFILE'
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
2010.72
CREDIT LINE
Designated Purchase Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Chrome plated steel and Lucite chair with eight legs on castors. Inner frame: Modular, tubular metal frame with four legs with a square, upward tilted Lucite seat and square angled Lucite back. Outer section: Modular tubular metal with two legs on either side of seat, each with above a single long, Lucite, rectangular armrest. The chair design as a modern reinterpretation of the Wassily chair design of 1927.
Condition: Good. See conservation report on file.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Paul Rudolph (American, 1918â1997). Armchair, Designed 1968. Chrome-plated steel, other metals, Lucite
, 26 x 31 x 29 in. (66 x 78.7 x 73.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 2010.72. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2010.72.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2010.72.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011
"CUR" at the beginning of an image file name means that the image was created by a curatorial staff member. These study images may be digital point-and-shoot photographs, when we don\'t yet have high-quality studio photography, or they may be scans of older negatives, slides, or photographic prints, providing historical documentation of the object.
RIGHTS STATEMENT
Creative Commons-BY
You may download and use Brooklyn Museum images of this three-dimensional work in accordance with a Creative Commons license. Fair use, as understood under the United States Copyright Act, may also apply.
Please include caption information from this page and credit the Brooklyn Museum. If you need a high resolution file, please fill out our online application form (charges apply).
For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch.
For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright.
If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org.
RECORD COMPLETENESS
Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and we welcome any additional information you might have.
