SAPFM Museum Furniture Collection

"Contour" Lounge Chair from the "Easy Edges" Line

Frank Gehry (American, born Canada 1929)

"Contour" Lounge Chair from the "Easy Edges" Line, Frank Gehry (American, born Canada 1929), Designed 1970; Manufactured 198…
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."
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