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Dean Hawkes is a British architect and award-winning academic. Born in 1938 he studied at Regional College of Art, Manchester and Clare College, University of Cambridge. His career combined practice, teaching and research:
The McIntire Chair [5] is a vase-back chair, originally part of a large set, was made for Elias Hasket Derby. The chair's overall design is based on plate 2 of George Hepplewhite's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (London, 1788), but enriched considerably by the addition of relief carving to parts of the back and the front legs.
After a short time of education in school, he started to work in his father's gallery. He soon found a great interest in furniture and especially chairs, their function and design. In the 1920s and 30s he developed a techniques for building bentwood chairs with hemp webbing. The first model, called the Grasshopper, was used at Värnamo Hospital ...
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Antique arm chair drawn by Charles Eastlake, whose 1868 book on furniture became influential in Britain and the United States. Charles Locke Eastlake (11 March 1836 – 20 November 1906) was a British architect and furniture designer.
Side chair, a chair with a seat and back but without armrests; often matched with a dining table or used as an occasional chair; Sit-stand chair, [32] normally used with a height-adjustable desk, allows the person to lean against this device and be partially supported; Sling chair, a suspended, free-swinging chair hanging from a ceiling
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