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Wealdstone Chair

Wealdstone Chair
2018
Artist/Maker
Silo Studio
Wealdstone Youth Workshop
Place of origin
Wealdstone

The Wealdstone Youth Workshop was set up in northwest London in 2018 with the intention of giving teenagers from the area an opportunity to contribute to a new town square in their neighbourhood. Together with designers Silo Studio, they developed the design for a leg that could be used in a multitude of ways – as chair and stool legs, as supports for backrests and as shelf brackets. 50 pieces of furniture were made for the square using the Wealdstone Leg. The legs were also available to purchase through the Wealdstone Youth Workshop’s website, www.w-y-w.co.uk for £10 per leg, with the proceeds being re-invested in the project.

Object details

Category
Furniture
Object type
Wealdstone Chair
TitleWealdstone Chair (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
The legs are made from 60% polypropylene and 40% paper pulp. During production, the paper pulp clumps together to form a pattern which makes each leg unique.
Polypropylene
Paper Pulp
Injection Moulding
Brief description
Wealdstone Chair by the Wealdstone Project and Silo Studio, 2018
Physical description
A chair composed of 6 Wealdstone Legs (in different colours), a plywood seat and backrest.
Dimensions
  • Chair height: 76.5cm
  • Chair width: 45cm
  • Chair depth: 49cm
  • Leg height: 40cm
Production typeDesign
Gallery label
(2021)
Design to regenerate communities

In 2015, residents from Granby, a neighbourhood in Liverpool, co-founded Granby Workshop with the London-based architecture collective Assemble. Producing ceramics, stoneware and textiles, it is a social enterprise supporting the community through making. Similarly, the Wealdstone Youth Workshop, set up in 2018 by regeneration agency Spacemakers, gave north-west London teenagers who had experienced cuts to youth services the opportunity to contribute to a new public square in their neighbourhood. With designers Silo Studio, they created a multifunctional leg for stools, chairs and benches, and sold them to fundraise for the project.

Marbled-paper lampshade
2015–16
Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop, UK
Acrylic ink, paper and wire
Museum no. CD.145:1, 2-2016

Pressed terracotta lampshade
2015–16
Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop, UK
Terracotta and iron oxide
Museum no. CD.146-2016

Composite-rock mantelpiece
2015–16
Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop with Will Shannon, UK
Granby Rock (sand, brick, slate, stone, cement and aggregate)
Museum no. CD.139:1 to 4-2016

Chair made using Wealdstone legs
2018
Designed by Esther Calinawan, Kayleigh Littlemore, Leo Harrison, Marina Marbella, Marius Dinu and Tanya Galia with the Wealdstone Youth Workshop and Silo Studio, UK
Plywood, polypropylene, paper pulp
Museum no. CD.7-2020

The object sits in the 'Crisis and Conflict' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.
Summary
The Wealdstone Youth Workshop was set up in northwest London in 2018 with the intention of giving teenagers from the area an opportunity to contribute to a new town square in their neighbourhood. Together with designers Silo Studio, they developed the design for a leg that could be used in a multitude of ways – as chair and stool legs, as supports for backrests and as shelf brackets. 50 pieces of furniture were made for the square using the Wealdstone Leg. The legs were also available to purchase through the Wealdstone Youth Workshop’s website, www.w-y-w.co.uk for £10 per leg, with the proceeds being re-invested in the project.
Collection
Design, Architecture and Digital Department
Accession number
CD.7-2020

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Record createdNovember 2, 2020
Record URL
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