peoplepill id: garth-chester
The basics
Quick Facts
Intro
Furniture designer
Work field
Gender
Male
Birth
Age
52 years
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
Garnet Campbell "Garth" Chester (1916 – 16 June 1968), was a New Zealand furniture designer.
Early life
He was born in New Zealand in 1916.
Career
He established the furniture firm, originals in Penrose, Auckland, and later set up a showroom in Mercury Lane in Auckland. Several of his designs became highly popular, including the Astoria Chair, the Bikini chair and the Curvesse chair, the latter “an undisputed icon of New Zealand design,” according to Douglas Lloyd Jenkins. He died in 1968, aged 52.
Collections
His work is held in the collections of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article.
The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Garth Chester is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
Garth Chester