# Harry Bertoia **Domain:** Design / Sculpture / Furniture **Doc Type:** Design-Lineage Node **Maturity:** Seed **Related:** [[Diamond Chair]], [[Mid-Century Modernism]], [[Design for Dignity]] --- ## Definition Harry Bertoia (1915–1978) was an Italian-born American artist and designer known for welded-wire furniture and sound sculpture. ## Corpus Context The Diamond Chair makes industrial grid structure visibly support the body, preserving the material honesty central to the article's preferred transition grammar. ## See Also [[Diamond Chair]], [[Mid-Century Modernism]], [[Design for Dignity]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “In the sculpture I am concerned primarily with space, form, and the characteristics of metal. In the chairs many functional problems have to be satisfied first…but when you get right down to it, the chairs are studies in space, form and metal too. If you will look at them, you will find that they are mostly made of air, just like sculpture. Space passes right through them.” > **— Harry Bertoia**, *On his welded steel-rod chairs for Knoll, 1952* [[reminders/Design/The Wire Chair Is Mostly Made of Air by Harry Bertoia|The Wire Chair Is Mostly Made of Air by Harry Bertoia]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]