Drawing, Design for an Armchair for the Swedish Pavilion, Paris Exposition of 1925

Erik Gunnar Asplund

1922–24

graphite and red, brown, and grey color pencil on beige tracing paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

This is a design for an armchair, featuring multiple views and detail sketches of the chair's base and legs. This is a design for an armchair, featuring multiple views and detail sketches of the chair's base and legs. Design includes a three-quarter view of a curved red chair with arms on the left and a side view of the chair on the right. Sketches in graphite of two details–the tip of the base of the chair and one of the chair legs–appear in the center of the composition. Another sketch, perhaps of a back chair leg, appears on the far right. Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John E. Parsons and Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt