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1922

  • Work on this object began.

1924

  • Work on this object ended.

1991

1992

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

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Drawing, Design for an Armchair 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 red, brown, and grey 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

18 × 31 cm (7 1/16 × 12 3/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: M23 GA 90.315

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Armchair for the Swedish Pavilion, Paris Exposition of 1925; Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940); Sweden; graphite and red, brown, and grey color pencil on beige tracing paper; 18 × 31 cm (7 1/16 × 12 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John E. Parsons and Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1992-9-2

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

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