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Armchair by Richard Neutra on display as part of the "Jazz Age" exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He graduated from the Sophiengymnasium in Vienna in 1910, and then studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology until 1918. He was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian artillery during World War I. After the war, he worked briefly as a landscape architect and then as an architect in Berlin.

Neutra emigrated to the United States in 1923 and briefly worked for Frank Lloyd Wright moving to Los Angeles. He subsequently practiced exclusively in architecture, and became famous for his International Style buildings. All were geometric but also airy structures that symbolized the West Coast. His work was featured in Philip Johnson's seminal MOMA exhibition of 1932. Neutra formed to large commercial and institutional buildings in 1949, but returned to homes and villas in 1960.

This chair was designed in 1931, but not built until 1941. It is of ash plywood, chrome steel, and leather, and was used by Neutra himself in his own home.

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