"Contour" Lounge Chair from the "Easy Edges" Line
Frank Gehry (American, born Canada 1929)
- Maker
- Frank Gehry (American, born Canada 1929)
- Date
- Designed 1970; Manufactured 1982
- Medium
- Laminated, corrugated cardboard, particle board, and beech
- Dimensions
- 29.4 x 22.6 x 39.1 in. (74.7 x 57.5 x 99.2 cm)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Los Angeles
- Museum
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Accession
- 1984.26
- Credit line
- Gift of Stewart G. Rosenblum, J.D. 1974, M.A. 1974, M.Phil. 1976, Ph.D. 2010
This chair is part of a line whose designer, Frank Gehry, named Easy Edges. In 1991 Gehry recalled its origins: "[I got interested in paper furniture when] I was designing for department stores and had to invent display furniture that nobody really had to sit on, and then could be easily disposed of. I never really expected to sell these things until someone from Bloomingdale's saw them and suggested I develop them."