HARRY BERTOIA Was born March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo Udine, Italy. Died, November 1978.
After visiting with his father on a trip to Detroit, MI, he decided not return to Italy. Staying in the United States, Bertoia received a scholarship to the School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts in 1936 and a year later was awarded a teaching scholarship at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
He worked as a designer of furniture, decorative arts, and jewelry and he enjoyed a very successful career as an accomplished sculptor creating metal sculptures, sounding pieces, and kinetic works of art in metal. His kinetic sculptures define the marriage of art and science.
