Wait Chair
Chair
1996 (designed), 1998 (manufactured)
1996 (designed), 1998 (manufactured)
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This was the first real moulding from the stainless steel injection moulding machine for the Wait Chair. Machines and tools for injection moulding are extremely expensive and there is little room for adjustment once the mould has been made. The prototype is made from polypropylene coloured with white talc, and was made to test the strength of the chair. It is marked with minor changes to be made, and Matthew Hilton, its designer, has written on it with the date it was made: 4th December 1988.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Wait Chair (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Injection moulded polypropylene with talc added |
| Brief description | Wait Chair, designed by Matthew Hilton about 1996, prototype made by Authentics, Germany, about 1997; injection-moulded polypropylene |
| Physical description | White one-piece injection-moulded polypropylene prototype chair with black pen inscriptions |
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| Production type | Prototype |
| Marks and inscriptions | '4th Dec 1998' (Dated in black pen on seat) |
| Credit line | Given by Matthew Hilton |
| Summary | This was the first real moulding from the stainless steel injection moulding machine for the Wait Chair. Machines and tools for injection moulding are extremely expensive and there is little room for adjustment once the mould has been made. The prototype is made from polypropylene coloured with white talc, and was made to test the strength of the chair. It is marked with minor changes to be made, and Matthew Hilton, its designer, has written on it with the date it was made: 4th December 1988. |
| Bibliographic reference | 'The Furniture Machine: furniture since 1990', Gareth Williams, V&A Publications, 2006, illustrated p.9 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.18-2005 |
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| Record created | August 12, 2005 |
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