When I saw this chair, I was scared. I didn’t know what I was about to get myself into. And I was right. This chair was extremely difficult to model – I pretty much modeled every line of the seat. Even though this was very time consuming, by the end of it, I became familiar and more experienced with using Rhino. I learned a lot of commands, techniques, and tricks- the most important one being to not pipe lines until the last stage.

Harry Bertoia

Knoll historian Brian Lutz once said, “Bertoia’s paintings were better than his sculptures. And his sculptures were better than his furniture. And his furniture was absolutely brilliant.”

Bertoia also collaborated with Eero Saarinen to design the altar for the MIT Chapel. He spent 25 years of his life experimenting with light, sound and volume through sculptures, paintings and architectural installations.

Today Knoll carries on Harry Bertoia’s legacy of innovation, inspiration and beauty with the Bertoia collection, which has been in continuous production around the world since its introduction. In 2005 Knoll introduced the Asymmetric Lounge, a design from Bertoia’s initial experimentation that never reached production.