Nike
Armchair
1968 (made)
1968 (made)
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This is one of the first vacuum formed chairs. Green ABS Plastics shell on low pedestal with round base. The shell is deeply ribbed behind the back, and has a wide lip round the edge. Low un-padded arms, and two separate cushions of polyurethane foam, covered with white leather (removable by a zip fastening). The pedestal has a filling of polythurethane foam.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Nike (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Outer shell is ABS plastic, spray painted. Skai or leather upper cushion with linen or cotton base. Two types of polyurethane foam cushion filling: one as main cushion, one as front lip. |
| Brief description | Vacuum-formed chair, ‘Nike’ designed 1968 by Richard Neagle (born 1922 USA) and manufactured by Sormani, Como, Italy. |
| Physical description | This is one of the first vacuum formed chairs. Green ABS Plastics shell on low pedestal with round base. The shell is deeply ribbed behind the back, and has a wide lip round the edge. Low un-padded arms, and two separate cushions of polyurethane foam, covered with white leather (removable by a zip fastening). The pedestal has a filling of polythurethane foam. |
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| Object history | Description of Craftsman from Hollis, R. 1970. Modern Chairs:1918-1970. The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: Industrial design consultant. Born 1922. Trained Pratt Institute, Brooklyn USA. Entered design partnership 1949; own office from 1954, Westport, Connecticut; design director to Admiral Italiana, Pye Electronics and Edison (chemical division), Italian subsidiaries; design consultant to Armstrong Cork & Co and Monsanto Co. Range of objects designed has included furniture, radio and TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, telephones, plastic housewares, partition systems etc. Description of simiar object from Hollis, R. 1970. Modern Chairs:1918-1970. The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: Probably the first armchair to be produced in plastics by the process of vacuum-forming, the main shell makes capital virtue out of its technical necessities in the direction of maximum strength , minium weight/thickness/material consumption. It was first shown at the International Furniture Exhibition, Milan 1968. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.403-1970 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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