Bird Lounge Chair

Based on his experience as head of the Experimental Department at the Eames studio, Harry Bertoia designed the Diamond chairs for Knoll International in the 1950s.

A single piece of steel rods forms the seat and backrest, joined to a light steel frame that shapes the base. The visible structure of the Bird model suggests that the chairs were objects in space, and as Bertoia said, “space passes through them.”