Big Chair, 1984-1986

Oxidised steel, moulded plywood, wool felt, fine linen, English oak, died nylon, hand-woven fine linen fabric by Jennifer Robertson.

Photo: Frank Thurston.

As the bigger sibling to the Little Chair, the chair anticipates how it might be used with multiple sitting and use options. It includes an articulated footstool and begins to acknowledge furniture as adornment in contrast to furniture as architecture that was typical of the modernist movement and its ideas up until 1970’s.

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