Digital Imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts Tuesday 1 st December 2009 Sue Newton-Short London Metropolitan University
Mar 28, 2015
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