Image source: Knoll — Pollock Arm Chair
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Pollock Arm Chair
Charles Pollock's 657 sling chair: belting leather sling on chrome steel and cast aluminum, 1960
635 × 705 × 660 mm
1960
Approx. $4,800 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The Pollock Arm Chair is Charles Pollock's 657 sling chair for Knoll: a belting leather sling and a leather-covered seat pad on tubular steel legs, with cast-aluminum arms and stretchers and exposed hardware. Knoll gives 1960 as the design year and reintroduced the chair in 2014.
Construction
- Sling of Spinneybeck belting leather
- Seat pad: urethane cushion covered in Spinneybeck Portofino leather
- Arms and stretchers: cast aluminum, black painted finish
- Legs: tubular steel, polished chrome finish
Specifications
- W 25 x D 26 x H 27.75 in (635 x 660 x 705 mm)
- Seat height 16.25 in, arm height 22.75 in
- Net weight 32 lb (Knoll shop)
Story
A sling chair of 1960
Knoll dates the steel and leather sling chair, known as the '657', to 1960, says it was originally manufactured from 1964 to 1979 and reintroduced it in 2014. Its designer page notes that the 657 Lounge was introduced in 1961.
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Pollock on how it began
Pollock recalls building prototypes from plumbing pulled out of an abandoned basement and bringing them to Knoll without an appointment. Vincent Cafiero, a member of the Planning Unit, saw promise in the leather and steel lounge chair and encouraged him to keep working on it.
