Philip Orenstein
Born1938
France
NationalityAmerican
EmployerRutgers
Known forInflatable Furniture
Websitephiliporenstein.net/philiporenstein.net/

Philip Orenstein is a visual artist living in New Jersey, USA.

Orenstein is know for creating the first inflatable furniture. In 1966 he created Mass Art Inc. in partnership with Sujan Souri, Dorian Godoy, and Waldo Díaz-Balart. The company manufactured the first inflatable chair designed by Orenstein which is now included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Greenberg, Cara. Op to Pop: Furniture of the 1960s. Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1999. Pp. 162-164.

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http://arcade.nyarc.org:80/record=b569804~S8

http://www.google.com/patents/US3499682

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/210019155

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/nyregion/art-review-grappling-with-the-effects-of-the-century-s-greatest-evil.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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