He received a scholarship to study at the Cranbrook Academy of Art where he encountered Walter Gropius, Edmund N. Bacon and Ray and Charles Eames for the first time.
1938
Attended the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, now known as the College for Creative Studies.
1939
Opening his own metal workshop, he taught jewelry design and metal work.
1943
He married Brigitta Valentiner, and moved to California to work with Charles and Ray for the Evans Product Company.
1950
He moved to Pennsylvania, to establish a studio, and to work with Hans and Florence Knoll.
1950 - 1955
The commercial success enjoyed by Bertoia's diamond chair was immediate and in the mid-50's the chairs, being produced by Knoll, sold so well, that the royalties he received for them allowed him to devote himself exclusively to sculpture.
1957
In 1957 he was a fellow at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.
