1970 saw one of the most tragic airplane accidents in university history. The entire Marshall University football team, along with coaches and staff, was killed when their aircraft crashed returning home from an away game.
As city budgets dwindle, property owners stress over departing tenants, and public art disappears, what will happen to the Bertoias?
Sonambient concerts held daily at Sotheby’s New York in 2019, looking for the perfect home for the Sonambient Barn collection
The Harry Bertoia Foundation is expanding our product line into…
(Ladies and men who dare to be different, are you ready?)
Scarves!
An iconic American success story, artist Harry Bertoia, sat down with interviewer Paul Cummings in the Sonambient Barn during the summer of 1972 for the Oral History Interview project of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. A selection of excerpts follows.
While Harry Bertoia is known for his monumental architectural commissions and impressive sounding sculptures, he also made countless small table top sculptures that offer magical charisma and levity.
Any household product in service for up to sixty years is going to show signs of wear and tear and that includes the robust steel wire Bertoia chairs that have been in continuous production worldwide since the first customer order shipments in 1953.
Traveling to Pennsylvania is always bittersweet because of my early history there, but this time was more sweet than bitter. The weather was wonderful, the company stellar, and the reception fantastic.
Florence, better known as Shu, who passed on January 25th at age 101, and my father, Harry Bertoia, were great friends. They worked closely together on the modern Bertoia chairs that ultimately came out in 1952.
After working out of my residence for over five years, my husband Kyle and I (answering the phone thinking it’s my girlfriend and instead talking to a chair aficionado for 30 minutes at 9:00 on a Friday night) are both happy to have the foundation in a home of its own!