digital imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts tuesday 1 st december 2009 sue...
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Digital Imagery: creation and
importance in the visual arts
Tuesday 1st December 2009
Sue Newton-Short
London Metropolitan University
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Interior of the grand salon of S.S. Aquitaine
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100 years of inspiring designers
George II, c. 1745
in mahogany
FP reproduction c. 1930s
in walnut
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19th November 2002
The chairs arrive.
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Staff at the ready
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Our dust busters arrive
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…..and get started!
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chairsFrederick Parker Gallery
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chairs
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recent additions to the collection
The Polyprop
Designed by Robin Day
1963
The Antelope chair
Designed by Ernest Race
1951
Recycled plastic bottles
Designed by Jane Atfield
1996
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The Silhouette chair
Designed by William Warren
2002
fpf349
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The Frederick Parker Foundation Mission
Statement
The trust seeks to encourage and promote chair and furniture history,
design and manufacture.
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Annual cleaning
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Labelling the chairs
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Shelves cleaned and Chairs replaced
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http://www.frederick-parker-foundation.org
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carvingscarvings
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archive
Frederick Parker & Parker Knoll
business records, accounts & board minutes
Their sales catalogues
Sales catalogues of their competitors
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Photographs and sample materials of Frederick Parker and Parker Knoll products
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Drawings of all private commissions
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Our aim
To make the Frederick Parker collections and company archive accessible to as wide an audience as possible
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Our objectives To collate known information and images into
searchable databases of the chairs, carvings and archive
To publish catalogues of the chair collection and the carving collection
To establish a common format with similar collections and determine best practice
to gain museum accreditation status
to continue to utilise the collection for study purposes
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Thank you