- Product:
- Barwa Chair
- Manufacturer:
- Phillips
- Architonic ID:
- 4104218
- Country:
- United States
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
"When you rise from barwa, you feel revived, renewed, glowing! barwa is not a chair, not a bed, but a new and modern method of securing and insuring relaxation."
Inset photo and quote from the Barwa promotional brochure (Institute of Design Records, Acc. No. 1998.31, Box 4, BARTOLUCCI, University Archives, Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago)
After studying at the Institute of Design in Chicago, Edgar Bartolucci and Jack Waldheim created their own design studio and designed the Barwa lounge, named after both the designers.
Bartolucci also teamed up with graphic designer, Robert Cato, another Institute of Design alumnus, in the mid-1950s to create a coffee table with five interchangeable colored panels, each painted a solid color on one side and with Cato's abstract designs on the other.
Tubular aluminum with canvas sling seat with faded paper label
38 1/8 in. (96.8 cm) high
Literature:
Industrial Design, Interiors, October 1947, p. 126.
Barwa Associates promotional brochure, Institute of Design Records, Acc. No. 1998.31, Box 4, BARTOLUCCI, University Archives, Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
William J. Hennessey, Modern Furnishings for the Home, New York, 1952, p. 72.
Inset photo and quote from the Barwa promotional brochure (Institute of Design Records, Acc. No. 1998.31, Box 4, BARTOLUCCI, University Archives, Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago)
After studying at the Institute of Design in Chicago, Edgar Bartolucci and Jack Waldheim created their own design studio and designed the Barwa lounge, named after both the designers.
Bartolucci also teamed up with graphic designer, Robert Cato, another Institute of Design alumnus, in the mid-1950s to create a coffee table with five interchangeable colored panels, each painted a solid color on one side and with Cato's abstract designs on the other.
Tubular aluminum with canvas sling seat with faded paper label
38 1/8 in. (96.8 cm) high
Literature:
Industrial Design, Interiors, October 1947, p. 126.
Barwa Associates promotional brochure, Institute of Design Records, Acc. No. 1998.31, Box 4, BARTOLUCCI, University Archives, Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
William J. Hennessey, Modern Furnishings for the Home, New York, 1952, p. 72.