Digital Imagery: creation and

importance in the visual arts

Tuesday 1st December 2009

Sue Newton-Short

London Metropolitan University

Interior of the grand salon of S.S. Aquitaine

100 years of inspiring designers

George II, c. 1745

in mahogany

FP reproduction c. 1930s

in walnut

19th November 2002

The chairs arrive.

Staff at the ready

Our dust busters arrive

…..and get started!

chairsFrederick Parker Gallery

chairs

recent additions to the collection

The Polyprop

Designed by Robin Day

1963

The Antelope chair

Designed by Ernest Race

1951

Recycled plastic bottles

Designed by Jane Atfield

1996

The Silhouette chair

Designed by William Warren

2002

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The Frederick Parker Foundation Mission

Statement

The trust seeks to encourage and promote chair and furniture history,

design and manufacture.

Annual cleaning

Labelling the chairs

Shelves cleaned and Chairs replaced

http://www.frederick-parker-foundation.org

carvingscarvings

archive

Frederick Parker & Parker Knoll

business records, accounts & board minutes

Their sales catalogues

Sales catalogues of their competitors

Photographs and sample materials of Frederick Parker and Parker Knoll products

Drawings of all private commissions

Our aim

To make the Frederick Parker collections and company archive accessible to as wide an audience as possible

Our objectives To collate known information and images into

searchable databases of the chairs, carvings and archive

To publish catalogues of the chair collection and the carving collection

To establish a common format with similar collections and determine best practice

to gain museum accreditation status

to continue to utilise the collection for study purposes

Thank you