The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

C. Bertoia's "Sounding Sculpture" can be found in the plaza of The Aon Center Chicago's second tallest building. Morgan Chase.

At the age of 15 he traveled from Italy to Detroit to visit his older brother however he chose to stay and enrolled in Cass Technical High School where he studied art and design and learned the art of handmade jewelry making. In 1938 he attended the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts now known as the College for Creative Studies. d.