A. Lawrence Kocher Chaise Longue 1939

Not on view

Kocher designed this chaise in conjunction with a project for the Clarence White School of Photography in New York. Charged with remodeling a townhouse at 34 West 74th Street for the school's relocation, he designed and fabricated furniture for the faculty terrace before funding problems prevented the projects completion. Kocher, an architect, was especially interested in affordability, and through the 1930s he explored the use of new industrial materials in domestic structures, including aluminum with steel and canvas over plywood. He was the Editor of Architectural Record and a professor at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, for which he designed several buildings. He was recognized as an American leader in European-inspired modernism, and his work was featured in MoMAs 1932 "International Style" exhibition.

Gallery label from Shaping Modernity: Design 1880-1980, December 23, 2009–July 25, 2010 .

Medium: Painted steel
Dimensions: 26 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 59 1/2" (67.3 x 57.8 x 151.1 cm)
Credit: Gift of John C. Waddell
Object number: 1328.2009
Department: Architecture and Design

A. Lawrence Kocher has 2 works online.
There are 10,950 design works online.
There are 690 furniture and interiors online.

Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].

Feedback

This record is a work in progress. If you have additional information or spotted an error, please send feedback to [email protected].