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Folding Chair
Accession # 2000.101.2
Designer Henry (Heintz) P. Glass
Title Folding Chair
Date Designed 1961
Medium Aluminum, canvas, synthetic webbing
Dimensions 28 7/8 x 23 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. (73.3 x 59.7 x 81 cm)
Credit Line Modernism Benefit Fund
Location Visible Storage: Case 5, Shelf E (Contemporary Furniture)
Description Folding chair with tubular aluminum frame and yellow canvas seat. Frame has square base; rectangular seat frame and back frame hinged to base to form collapsible V-shape; one horizontal stretcher across seat frame and two stretchers across back frame. Canvas chair fastened to top of back frame and to front edge of seat with screws; folded and stitched across middle to section seat and back. Black webbing strips run along sides of canvas seat from back base to front base and over stretchers, forming armrests. Condition: Fair; canvas is dirty, faded, and stained with spots, and has holes along front and back edges; aluminum frame is scuffed and spotted; lower back stretcher and some of hardware is rusted.