Black and white Wire chair by Harry Bertoia - Vintage

Harry Bertoia Wire Chair
White seat, black base
Original vintage model, Knoll edition, 1960
Vintage condition

This iconic design chair is composed of a steel wire mesh structure supported by slender metal legs. Its manufacture was initially manual: each wire was bent by hand before being welded and chrome-plated (sometimes covered in white, black, or colored Rilsan).
According to Harry Bertoia: "This chair is a study of space, form, and metal. If you look at it, it is made mainly of air, like a light sculpture. Space passes right through it."
The five chairs in the Bertoia collection for Knoll are all based on the same manufacturing principle: Bertoia Side Chair (dining chair: 1952), Bertoia Barstool (bar stool: 1952), Bertoia Bird Lounge (lounge chair and ottoman: 1956), and Bertoia Asymmetric (asymmetric chaise longue: 1952).