athomeinloveI love furniture of all types, but chairs have my heart. Each one seems to have a personality of it’s own. I love seeing a bunch of different chairs in a room, like old friends sitting around chatting...Read More about 5 Iconic ChairsBe the first to know about Rare and Fast Selling Mid Century, Modern and newsletter to hear about exclusive deals and special limited time offers.Rare Item AlertsSales and PromotionsGeneral InterestSpecial K ProductsMember id ( Feedback Score Of 4973) Welcome to Special K Products eBay Store, We sell high quality replacement parts for Eames, Herman Miller, Harry Bertoia and Knoll chairs. We are proud to offer the outstanding service and quality state-of-the-art products that our customers have come to depend on. Here at Special K Products, we devote all of our time, energy, and innovation into our state-of-the-art products; there is simply no better made replacement parts for your genuine mid-century modern furniture. Whether it's for your Eames, Herman Miller, Harry Bertoia, Knoll, George Nelson or any other mid-century modern furniture design needing a bit of restoration, we've got you covered.
Our growth stems from our fanatical customer service and low pricing because we manage to keep it all in-house, in the USA. This is why we receive the majority of our business from repeat and referred customers who have made Special K Products their one-stop shop for all their repair and restoration needs. We strive to provide a personable experience with all of our customers world wide, and we truly understand the importance and irreplaceable value of your mid-century modern furniture.Sculptor, furniture and jewelry designer, graphic artist and metalsmith, Harry Bertoia was one of the great cross-disciplinarians of 20th-century art and design and a central figure in American modernism. Among furniture aficionados he is known for the wire-lattice “Diamond” chair (and its variants such as the tall-backed “Bird” chair) designed for Knoll Inc. and first released in 1952. As an artist, Bertoia is revered for a style that was his alone. Bertoia’s metal sculptures are by turns expressive and austere, powerful and subtle, intimate in scale and monumental.
All embody a tension between the intricacy and precision of Bertoia’s forms and the raw strength of his materials: steel, brass, bronze and copper. Fortune seemed to guide Bertoia’s artistic development. Born in northeastern Italy, Bertoia immigrated to the United States at age 15, joining an older brother in Detroit. He studied drawing and metalworking in the gifted student program at Cass Technical High School. Recognition led to awards that culminated, in 1937, in a teaching scholarship to attend the Cranbrook Academy of Art in suburban Bloomfield Hills, one of the great crucibles of modernism in America. There, Bertoia made friendships — with architect Eero Saarinen, designers Charles and Ray Eames and Florence Schust Knoll and others — that shaped the course of his life. He taught metalworking at Cranbrook, and when materials rationing during World War II limited the availability of metals, Bertoia focused on jewelry design. He also experimented with monotype printmaking, and 19 of his earliest efforts were bought by the Guggenheim Museum.
In 1943, he left Cranbrook to work in California with the Eameses, helping them develop their now-famed plywood furniture. (Bertoia received scant credit.) Late in that decade, Florence and Hans Knoll persuaded him to move east and join Knoll Inc. His chairs became, and remain, perennial bestsellers. Royalties allowed Bertoia to devote himself full-time to metal sculpture, a medium he began to explore in earnest in 1947. By the early 1950s Bertoia was receiving commissions for large-scale works from architects — the first came via Saarinen — as he refined his aesthetic vocabulary into two distinct skeins. One comprises his “sounding sculptures” — gongs and “Sonambient” groupings of rods that strike together and chime when touched by hand or by the wind. The other genre encompasses Bertoia’s naturalistic works: abstract sculptures that suggest bushes, flower petals, leaves, dandelions or sprays of grass. As you will see on these pages, Harry Bertoia was truly unique;
his art and designs manifest a wholly singular combination of delicacy and strength.Custom SpiderwebSpiderweb GateGateway DoorwayUpcoming WeldingSpider DecalGarden TrellisGarden GatesPotager GardenAwesome GateForwardArt of Metal creates stunning art pieces. All items are made in our Derbyshire studios. Bespoke items can also be made upon request. See gift ideas in store.Folding MulticolorMulticolor WoodenColorful WoodenMulticolor FishFish ColorfulColorful CuteFolding WoodenFolding TablesTable FoldsForwardFolding Fish Table, Multicolored - Great lakeside or poolside, this colorful wooden table folds flat and comes with a handle to easily transport it wherever you need it next. Use it as a bedside table in a child's room for a nautical splash of color. Kenneth Contemporary Dining Chair in White Vinyl by Coaster 104563 - Set of 2Neo Chair, Same Problem This morning I woke up convinced that I could find a steel/wire frame chair that would work in my living room. Since my very first post back in 2004, I’ve been coveting wire-style chairs because they have such a light visual footprint and always keep their shape.
But sadly, they are some of the least comfortable chairs around. When I was 24 I started saving up to buy a set of Bertoia chairs, but stopped when I actually went to sit on them and realized that no amount of adorable seat cushions would make them chairs that I wanted to sit in for any extended amount of time. I gave up the dream, but never stopped lusting after them. Then I bumped into this gorgeous chair, the Neo, at Jayson Home. I know I shouldn’t want it- it’s probably not super comfortable. But man if those lines aren’t beautiful and that gridded form look so light and airy and would be the perfect addition to a small space that doesn’t need a lot of heavy wood weighing it down. Has anyone ever been able to make these sorts of wire/grid type chairs work for them as regular everyday pieces? I feel like every dining room and office styled for Domino magazine back in the day had a set, but I can’t imagine anyone actually used those chairs to eat or work for more than an hour.