Don Chadwick
Template:Short description Template:Improve images Donald "Don" T. Chadwick[1] (born 1936) is an American industrial designer specializing in office seating.
Early life
He was born in Los Angeles and developed an interest in furniture making from his grandfather, a cabinetmaker.[2] He studied design at the University of California, Los Angeles.[3]
Career
He worked for architect Victor Gruen, and in 1964 founded his own practice. As a young designer Chadwick gained recognition for his entries in the Pasadena Art Museum's California Design exhibitions.[4] His 1968 prototype for cardboard furniture predates the easy edges cardboard furniture by Frank Gehry.[4] He has designed the Chadwick modular seating system (1974) and, in cooperation with Bill Stumpf, the Equa 1 (1984) and the Aeron chair (1994), all for Herman Miller.[3][5] Among his recent designs is the Chadwick chair and Spark chair for Knoll, and Ballo for Human Scale.
Publications
- Friedman, Mildred, Ed. A Serious Chair — Design Quarterly 126. Minneapolis and Cambridge: The Walker Art Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984. Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
- Olivares, Jonathan, Ed. Don Chadwick Photography 1961–2005. Barcelona: Apartamento Publishing S.L., 2019 Template:ISBN
- Amy Auscherman, Sam Gawe, Leon Ransmeier, Eds. "Ergon Chairs 1976" in Herman Miller: A Way of Living. London: Phaidon Press, 2019. 460–481 Template:ISBN
References
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