Stacking side chair with steel legs and laminated seat and back.
Identifier
FPF465
Title
Stacking side chair with steel legs and laminated seat and back.
Date
2006
Description
‘Silhouette Chair Victoria’, a stacking side chair with steel legs and laminated seat and back, designed by William Warren for Trico, manufactured in Japan.
Full Description
This chair has bent tubular steel legs and a laminated plywood seat and back, the back profile shaped and pierced in the form of a crown. The steel frame is coated in a white paint finish and the plywood is stained and polished to a red-brown colour.
The chair was designed by William Warren as a companion piece for the ‘Silhouette Chair Albert’ (2001). Designed for Trico and manufactured in Japan, both pieces were inspired by chairs which Warren had observed in the Frederick Parker Collection. The inspiration for the Victoria chair was a walnut balloon-back side chair with an upholstered seat dating from around 1850 (FPF349).
Warren has taken a traditional form and used modern technology to create a contemporary stacking chair with a humorous twist. The manufacturing process involved tracing the chair profiles in 3D before using a CNC (computer numerical control) router to cut the desired shape from ply laminations; the use of laminated plywood to form seats was developed in the 1930s by designers like Marcel Breuer and Gerald Summers (Jackson, 2013).
William Warren (b. 1973) is a designer and furniture maker and lectures at several British universities.
The chair was designed by William Warren as a companion piece for the ‘Silhouette Chair Albert’ (2001). Designed for Trico and manufactured in Japan, both pieces were inspired by chairs which Warren had observed in the Frederick Parker Collection. The inspiration for the Victoria chair was a walnut balloon-back side chair with an upholstered seat dating from around 1850 (FPF349).
Warren has taken a traditional form and used modern technology to create a contemporary stacking chair with a humorous twist. The manufacturing process involved tracing the chair profiles in 3D before using a CNC (computer numerical control) router to cut the desired shape from ply laminations; the use of laminated plywood to form seats was developed in the 1930s by designers like Marcel Breuer and Gerald Summers (Jackson, 2013).
William Warren (b. 1973) is a designer and furniture maker and lectures at several British universities.
Condition
Good.
Materials
Laminated plywood with tubular steel leg frame.
Physical Dimensions
H. 113
W. 71
D. 74
W. 71
D. 74
Parker Numbers
Inspired by FPF349.
Provenance
Donated to the Frederick Parker Foundation by William Warren in 2009.
