8.7.4: Glass Chair at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

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    by DR. EMILY ORR and DR. STEVEN ZUCKER

    Video \(\PageIndex{1}\): Chair, c. 1948, attributed to Henry Turchin, design direction by Louis Dierra, manufactured by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA), slumped plate glass, metal, woven textile (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City)

    This video was produced in cooperation with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

    Smarthistory images for teaching and learning:

    Henry Turchin (?), Glass Chair, c. 1939

    Henry Turchin (?), Glass Chair, c. 1939

    Henry Turchin (?), Glass Chair, c. 1939
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    Henry Turchin (?), Glass Chair, c. 1939

    Henry Turchin (?), Glass Chair, c. 1939

    Click on image for larger picture (External link to flickr)
    Henry Turchin (?), Glass Chair, c. 1939

    Henry Turchin (?), Glass Chair, c. 1939
    Click on image for larger picture (External link to flickr)

    This page titled 8.7.4: Glass Chair at the 1939 New York World’s Fair was last modified on Sun, 22 Jan 2023 02:58:00 GMT and is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Dr. Emily Orr and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Glass Chair at the 1939 New York World’s Fair," in Smarthistory, November 12, 2015, accessed August 29, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/glass-chair-at-the-1939-new-york-worlds-fair/.