Donald "Don" T. Chadwick (born 1936) is an American industrial designer specializing in office seating. __NOTOC__

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

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Career

He worked for architect

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, and in 1964 founded his own practice. As a young designer Chadwick gained recognition for his entries in the

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'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

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(1984) and the

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(1994), all for

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. Among his recent designs is the

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and Spark chair for

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, 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 * ''

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'' magazine, design: "Best of the Decade" for ''Equa chair'', 1990 * ''

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'' magazine and

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awarded Design of the Decade to the

, 2000 * National Design Awards, Product Design winner, 2006

References

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