Noah Armchair
Designer: Coates, Nigel
Chair with seat and back rest of sand blasted ash, the frame and three legs of blackened steel.
Sand-blasted ash seat with blackened steel frame. The seat is of ogee shape with projections on each side of the front, and a slight ridge in the centre. It is supported on three tubular legs linked by an A-shaped stretcher. The two front legs have pointed, outward curving terminations; the back leg continues upwards through a hole in the seat to sjupport the curved back rest. This curves downwards, and passes under the side projections of the seat, and over the top of the front legs, and is secured on top of the seat by a nut and bolt
History note: Purchased by Peter Dormer, 1994
Given by the Contemporary Art Society
Depth: 60 cm
Height: 72 cm
Width: 67 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1996) by Contemporary Art Society
20th century
Production date:
AD 1988
: The Noah furniture range was launched at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1988.
The Noah furniture family was designed for the Branson Coates' Noah's Ark building in Sapporo, Japan, with a restaurant and bar designed to resemble the Ark.
Frame
composed of
steel
( blackened)
Back
composed of
ash (wood)
( sand-blasted)
Seat
composed of
ash (wood)
( sand-blasted)
Accession number: M.15-1996
Primary reference Number: 77215
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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