This chair is an example of modern British furniture production from the early post war years. The chair was part of a small group of seat furniture forming the 'Tecta' range, manufactured by Packet Furniture Ltd., which also included a folding upholstered chair and a wooden framed chair with a seat and back of interwoven webbing. On this chair simple wooden side frames support a formed seat and back in light weight thermo-plastic.
Patents relating to the range were applied for by Lyons, Geoffrey Townsend and George Jenkins in 1945 and 1946. They show that the chair was designed with the intention of producing a simplified construction, ‘so that they can be easily made from pre-fabricated components by a person having no skill as a joiner or cabinet maker.’ It lists and illustrates various ways of constructing side frames from combinations of U, L and stair shaped members, which can then be joined simply together by back and seat members. The patent document suggests the model is ‘particularly suitable for kitchen use.’