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The seat is moulded black plywood, with metal hinge plates, and can be folded up.\n\nDescription of V&A object from Hollis, R. 1970. Modern Chairs:1918-1970. The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London:\r\nThe seats need to be folded upwards first, but the chairs then make a compact horizontal stack which is completely stable, and which does not transfer any accumulation of weight from one end of the stack to the other. The makers have recently ceased manufacture of all furniture and the chair is not currently in production.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Boman, Carl-Johan","id":"AUTH395762"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Schauman","id":"AUTH395764"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"birch","id":"AAT11973"},{"text":"plywood","id":"AAT12849"}],"techniques":[{"text":"moulded","id":"x30076"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2018KX9373","2018KX9374","2018KX9375"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES342651"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Chair","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Helsinki","id":"x35753"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1962","earliest":"1962-01-01","latest":"1962-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"CIRC.42-1970","id":"O371749"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"CIRC.43-1970","id":"O371748"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"74.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"From grey file","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"43.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"From grey file","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"48.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"From grey file","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"40","unit":"cm","qualifier":"Seat height; from grey file","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Stacking chair, GF40/4, designed by David Rowland, 1964. Manufactured by the General  Fireproofing Company, Youngstown, USA. Awarded the Grand Prix at the Triennale Exhibition  in Milan 1964. The American Interior Design International Award in 1965, and a Gold Medal at  the third International Furniture Exhibition in Vienna 1968.\r\n\r\nDescription of V&A object from Hollis, R. 1970. Modern Chairs:1918-1970. The Whitechapel Art Gallery,  London:\r\nForty of these strong, rigid, fireproof and finely detailed chairs can be placed in a stack only four feet high  overall – at a far greater density in fact than any comparable chair, either in current or imaginable production.  It can be adapted for linked seating in rows, and the vinyl seat covering is offered in a range of six colours. It  was awarded the Grand Prix at the Triennale Exhibition in Milan, in 1964; the American Interior Design  International Award in 1965, and a Gold Medal at the third International Furniture Exhibition in Vienna 1968.\r\n\r\nDescription of Craftsman from Hollis, R. 1970. Modern Chairs:1918-1970. The Whitechapel Art Gallery,  London:\r\nDavid Rowland. Industrial designer, born Los Angeles. Trained Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. Design  assistant to Norman Bel Geddes; own office from 1954, New York; development of stacking chair over a  period of eight years, 1956-64. Work exhibited Milan Triennale 1957, 1964(Gold Medal for GF 40/4 stacking  chair) Les Assises Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 1968","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Stacking chair, 1962, designed by Carl Johan Boman, Manufactured by Wilhelm Schauman, Helsinki. 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