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Digital Imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts Tuesday 1 st December 2009 Sue Newton-Short London Metropo

Digital Imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts Tuesday 1 st December 2009 Sue Newton-Short London Metropolitan University. Interior of the grand salon of S.S. Aquitaine. 100 years of inspiring designers. FP reproduction c. 1930s in walnut. George II, c. 1745 in mahogany.

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Digital Imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts Tuesday 1 st December 2009 Sue Newton-Short London Metropo

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  1. Digital Imagery: creation and importance in the visual arts Tuesday 1st December 2009 Sue Newton-Short London Metropolitan University

  2. Interior of the grand salon of S.S. Aquitaine

  3. 100 years of inspiring designers FP reproduction c. 1930s in walnut George II, c. 1745 in mahogany

  4. 19th November 2002 The chairs arrive.

  5. Staff at the ready

  6. Our dust busters arrive

  7. …..and get started!

  8. Frederick Parker Gallery chairs

  9. chairs

  10. 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

  11. The Silhouette chair Designed by William Warren 2002 fpf349

  12. The Frederick Parker Foundation Mission Statement The trust seeks to encourage and promote chair and furniture history, design and manufacture.

  13. Annual cleaning

  14. Labelling the chairs

  15. Shelves cleaned and Chairs replaced

  16. http://www.frederick-parker-foundation.org

  17. carvings carvings

  18. archive • Frederick Parker & Parker Knoll business records, accounts & board minutes • Their sales catalogues • Sales catalogues of their competitors

  19. Photographs and sample materials of Frederick Parker and Parker Knoll products

  20. Drawings of all private commissions

  21. Our aim To make the Frederick Parker collections and company archive accessible to as wide an audience as possible

  22. 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

  23. Thank you

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