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"Aluma-Stack" Stacking Chair

"Aluma-Stack" Stacking Chair

Jack Heaney
American
c. 1947
A lightweight, stackable chair made from a painted aluminum tubular frame with a simple canvas seat and back, designed for portability and efficient storage.
At first glance it reads as a single continuous line—bent aluminum tubes sweep into looping legs while the taut beige canvas seat and back seem to float inside the frame, lending an airy, utilitarian elegance.
Created around 1947, it reflects postwar modernism’s embrace of new industrial materials and mass-producible, space-saving furniture, helping to make casual, portable seating a staple of mid‑century design.
Medium
Painted aluminum frame and canvas seat
Dimensions
30 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 16 7/8" (76.8 x 41.9 x 42.9 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of Treitel-Gratz Co., Inc.
Accession
96.1948
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