Image Reference Number:
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ENBW01_91_203f
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Title:
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Ercol chair 203
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Photographer:
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unknown
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Date:
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unknown
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Manufacturer:
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Ercol Furniture Ltd.
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Designer/Creator:
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Ercolani, Lucian R
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Range Name:
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Windsor
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Description:
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The 203 armchair introduced in 1953 as part of the Ercol Windsor range. Date of the photograph is unknown but the chair was in production for many years.
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Angle of View/Elevation:
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Front Right View
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Notes:
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To mark the 25th anniversary of the chairs introduction 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."
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Concepts:
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furniture
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Technical Terms & Materials:
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armchairs , Windsor chairs
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Copyright:
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contact HWeFA for details about re-use of this image
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Collection Title:
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HWeFA
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Object Type:
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negative, film
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Object Dimensions (cm.):
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12.5 x 16.5
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Colour Type:
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black and white
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Cataloguer:
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Oliver Heal
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Date Catalogued:
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Fri Jul 06 00:00:00 BST 2007
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Auto ID Number:
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291
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Categories:
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Furniture Models/
Ercol Furniture Limited / Furniture Industries/
1970-1979
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