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1922

  • Work on this object began.

1924

  • Work on this object ended.

1991

1992

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Design for an Armchair and Chair for the Swedish Pavilion, Paris Exposition of 1925

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund. It is dated 1922–24 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is graphite and color pencil on beige tracing paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John E. Parsons and Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

26.6 × 38.7 cm (10 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, center, in Swedish; verso, lower left: M23 (9) 0 34(enclosed in triangle)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Armchair and Chair for the Swedish Pavilion, Paris Exposition of 1925; Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940); Sweden; graphite and color pencil on beige tracing paper ; 26.6 × 38.7 cm (10 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John E. Parsons and Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1992-9-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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