Object Description
‘S Chair’, Contemporary Abstract Wooden Chair by Tom Vaughan
English, 21st Century Contemporary Design
Height 76.5cm, width 59cm, depth 54.5cm
This beautiful piece of contemporary design is an ‘S chair’ – an early work by the London based furniture maker Tom Vaughan, and represents one of his first studies into flow and movement. Combining traditional woodworking techniques with exceptionally elegant, innovative free-flowing modern curves and forms, Vaughan has created an exceptionally accomplished and aesthetically pleasing piece of contemporary furniture, wherein the very essence and beauty of two-dimensional calligraphy or paint strokes seems to have found form in three dimensions, freely flowing with neither start point nor end.
Vaughan was trained in traditional cabinet making and carpentry at the London College of Furniture, and found his passion in combining these skills with modern and digital design techniques, which enabled him to create daring and highly original designs that combine the elegance and beauty of traditional carpentry with the minimalism, economy of material, and sophistication of contemporary styles.
Inspired by the likes of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, its smooth tactile quality and beautiful flowing form of this piece embody and encapsulate its essential nature as a functional sculpture, and its status as a contemporary interior design piece like no other.
The s-chair is available in each of the following materials: American black walnut, European oak and American white ash, with differing stains available in order to produce various different finishes and tones as desired. The main piece shown here is executed in stained Ash, with the other tones and full range subsequently displayed.