Harry Bertoia was born in 1915 San Lorenzo (IT) and died in 1978 Los Angeles (US)
    Bertoia emigrated to America in 1930. He studied at the Cass Technical High School in Detroit and trained on a scholarship at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. From 1939 to 1943, he set up a metal workshop and began to teach jewelry and metal working. In 1943, he worked with Charles and Ray Eames for the Evans Product Company where they experimented on molded-plywood seating. In 1950, he established a studio in Pennsylvania and introduced his famous ''Diamond'' chair made of welded steel lattice work. The success was immediate and in the mid-50''s the royalties he received for these chairs allowed him to devote himself exclusively to his sculpting career.