Takatsugu Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair, with Sugiyama and Jay Doblin in the background, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960 Sugiyama, Takatsugu Doblin, Jay, 1920- College administrators Illinois Institute of Technology. Institute of Design Chair design Metal furniture Crown Hall (Chicago, Ill.) Photograph of Institute of Design student Takatsugu Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair, with Sugiyama and ID Dean Jay Doblin in the background. The chair is most likely inside of S.R. Crown Hall, with Sugiyama and Doblin outside, on the other side of one of the building's glass panes. The chair consists of a single sheet of aluminum, rolled into a ribbon shape and bound to an aluminum base. The chair was designed in response to a call from the Alcoa company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, asking for ID students to design chairs out of a single sheet of aluminum. Sugiyama's design was recognized and awarded by Alcoa. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate. Pencil inscription on verso reads "Alcoa (Pitts.)." 1960 Still image Black and white photograph image/tiff islandora:1025183 0080102-414-07-004 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1025183 Institute of Design records, 1942-2001 Illinois Tech Libraries Illinois Institute of Technology en Chicago (Ill.) Copyright undetermined http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/