Donald "Don" T. Chadwick (born 1936) is an American
industrial designer specializing in
office seating.
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Early life
He was born in Los Angeles and developed an interest in furniture making from his grandfather, a cabinetmaker. He studied design at the
University of California, Los Angeles
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.
Career
He worked for architect
Victor Gruen
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, and in 1964 founded his own practice. As a young designer Chadwick gained recognition for his entries in the
Pasadena Art Museum
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Overview
The Norton ...
's California Design exhibitions.
His 1968 prototype for cardboard furniture predates the easy edges cardboard furniture by
Frank Gehry.
He has designed the
Chadwick modular seating system (1974) and, in cooperation with
Bill Stumpf, the
Equa 1
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Education
Sadia received her MSc in Political Science and Economics (Gender, Culture and So ...
(1984) and the
Aeron chair
The Aeron chair is an office chair sold by Herman Miller, first released in 1994. In 2010, it was called "America's best-selling chair". It is featured in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. It was designed by Don Chadwick and Bill ...
(1994), all for
Herman Miller
Herman Miller, officially MillerKnoll, Inc., is an American company that produces office furniture, equipment, and home furnishings, including the Aeron chair, Noguchi table, Marshmallow sofa, and the Eames Lounge Chair. Herman Miller is al ...
.
Among his recent designs is the
Chadwick chair Chadwick may refer to:
People
* Chadwick (surname)
* Chadwick (given name)
Places
* Chadwick, Illinois, United States, a village
* Chadwick, Michigan, United States, a former community
* Chadwick, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated commun ...
and Spark chair for
Knoll
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Knoll may also refer to:
Places
* Knoll Camp, site of an Iron Age hill fort Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
* Knoll Lake, Leonard Canyon, A ...
, 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.
* Olivares, Jonathan, Ed. ''Don Chadwick Photography 1961-2005''. Barcelona: Apartamento Publishing S.L., 2019
* Amy Auscherman, Sam Gawe, Leon Ransmeier, Eds. "Ergon Chairs 1976" in ''Herman Miller: A Way of Living''. London: Phaidon Press, 2019. 460-481
Awards
*
''I.D.'' magazine Award for Design Excellence, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974
*
ASID Award for Ergon seating, 1976
* The Governor's Award, Design Michigan Exhibition, 1977
* ''I.D.'' magazine "Designer of the 70s", 1979
* IBD and
IDSA awards for casegoods, 1980
* IBD Gold Award for ''Equa chair'', 1984
* IBD Gold Award for Ethospace interiors, 1985
* ''
Time
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'' magazine, design: "Best of the Decade" for ''Equa chair'', 1990
* ''
BusinessWeek
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'' magazine and
Industrial Designers Society of America
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The organization was formally established in 1965 by the collaborative merger of ...
awarded
Design of the Decade to the
Aeron chair
The Aeron chair is an office chair sold by Herman Miller, first released in 1994. In 2010, it was called "America's best-selling chair". It is featured in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. It was designed by Don Chadwick and Bill ...
, 2000
*
National Design Awards, Product Design winner, 2006
References
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American furniture designers
California people in design
1936 births
Living people
Artists from Los Angeles