Superchair
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: A reclining chair and furniture-replacing Living Structure unit designed by Ken Isaacs.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Catalog; "The Bed" exhibit, Sep 1966
File — Box 52, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Comprises Isaacs’ personal reference library, used by him for in-house reference as well as in press kits. For business, he produced and kept documentation files including drawings, plans and photographs about his designs and copies of any media coverage.
Dates:
Sep 1966
Copy; Brentano's work in The New Yorker, c 1966
File — Box 52, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Comprises Isaacs’ personal reference library, used by him for in-house reference as well as in press kits. For business, he produced and kept documentation files including drawings, plans and photographs about his designs and copies of any media coverage.
Dates:
c 1966
Isaacs Portrait in Superchair, Detail of Contact Sheet
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_69_26_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Portfolio; Mixed media career retrospective packet, bulk: 1960 - 1998
File — Box 50, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960 - 1998
Superchair and "Meet the Designer" article
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_48_11
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-12
Superchair by Ken Isaacs Limited
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_50_09_05
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05