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| Image Reference Number: | ENBW01_91_203b |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ercol chair 203 |
| Photographer: | unknown |
| Date: | unknown |
| Manufacturer: | Ercol Furniture Ltd. |
| Designer/Creator: | Ercolani, Lucian R |
| Range Name: |
Windsor |
| Description: | The 203 Easy Chair introduced in 1953 as part of the Ercol Windsor range. The date of the photograph is unknown but the chair was in production for many years. |
| Angle of View/Elevation: | Back View |
| Notes: |
Another negative (similar shot) is in the same folder. There are two matching prints in EPBW01_91_203. To mark the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the 203 chair the Company issued a leaflet entitled "The Generating Theme" which included the following: "?On a wet November night 1953 ? at an unbelievably late hour ? the lights were burning in the prototype shop ? a familiar voice boomed out, ?Look, Tom, that will see us through two or three months!?. The Old Man was pointing at a chair he had been developing for years ? the 203 Easy Chair ? it has no other name but its number. The ?Tom? he boomed at was Tom Redrup, still very much with us today ? who shared with the Old Man in evolving the chair in its infancy ? and so is the chair with us today after 25 years." |
| Concepts: |
furniture |
| Technical Terms & Materials: |
armchairs, Windsor chairs |
| Copyright: | contact HWeFA for details about re-use of this image |
| Collection Title: | HWeFA |
| Object Type: | negative, film |
| Object Dimensions (cm.): | 12.5 x 16.5 |
| Colour Type: | black and white |
| Cataloguer: | Oliver Heal |
| Date Catalogued: | Fri Jul 06 00:00:00 BST 2007 |
| Auto ID Number: | 290 |
| Categories: | Furniture Models/ Ercol Furniture Limited / Furniture Industries/ 1970-1979 |
