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Accession # 84.33.1
Manufacturer Thonet (now Thonet, USA)
Designer David Rowland
Title "Sof-Tech" Side Chair
Date Designed 1979
Medium Tubular steel, PVC coated steel
Dimensions 29 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 16 7/8 in. (75.6 x 50.2 x 42.9 cm) Seat Height: 16 7/8 in. (42.9 cm)
Marks On paper label attached to underside of seat frame: "A David Rowland design for Thonet / Patents Pending"
Inscriptions no inscriptions
Signed no signature
Credit Line Gift of Thonet
Location Visible Storage: Case 7, Shelf E (Contemporary Furniture)
Description Tubular chrome-plated steel frame with plastic-coated gridded sheet for seat and back. Frame composed of a pair of straight stiles, curving back slightly at the top, and a single length of steel running from the foot of both legs, around the sides and back of the seat. The seat and back are each composed of a length of plastic-covered ("Soflex") grid (with rounded lines), arching slightly upward from side to side. CONDITION: Good, but obviously used. Chrome-plating is flaking off at inside edge of proper right stile where it joins back. A few, slight nicks to frame: towards front proper left of seat frame, proper right leg at front right top. Piece of bottom. Seat no longer shiny, due to use.