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Chair

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

Designer

Walter von Nessen, American, 1889 - 1943

Credit Line

Private Collection

Date

1928

Accession Number

79.2016.1

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

furniture
Exhibitions
Chair

Medium

Aluminum, brass, leather

Dimensions

H x W x D: 68.6 × 50.8 × 50.8 cm (27 × 20 × 20 in.)

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Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq437c7ad39-88d4-4432-9ec1-15758711fb91

Record ID

chndm_79.2016.1

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