Don Chadwick

Don Chadwick (1936 - ) was born in Los Angeles and developed an interest in furniture making from his grandfather, a cabinetmaker.^[1] He studied design at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[2] He worked for architect Victor Gruen, and in 1964 founded his own practice. He has designed Chadwick Modular Seating (1974) and with Bill Stumpf designed the Equa 1 (1984) and the Aeron chair (1994), all for Herman Miller. ^[2] Business Week Magazine and Industrial Designers Society of America awarded Design of the Decade to the Aeron chair in 2000. ^[3] Recently he has designed the Chadwick chair for Knoll.

Awards^[4]

• Time magazine, Design: Best of the Decade for Equa chair, 1990
• IBD Gold Award for Equa chair, 1984
• IBD and IDSA awards for casegoods, 1980
• The Governor's Award, Design Michigan Exhibition, 1977
• Award for Design Excellence, ID magazine, 1970, 71, 73, 74

Notes

1. ^ http://reach.hermanmillerasia.com/HermanMillerPresents
2. ^ ^{a b} "Don Chadwick". Knoll. http://www.knoll.com/designer/designer_detail.jsp?designer_id=140. Retrieved 2009-07-07. 
3. ^ Industrial Designers Society of America. "Ergon Chair (1976)". http://idsa.org/content/ergon-chair-1976. Retrieved 2011-09-26. 
4. ^ http://www.smartfurniture.com/products/Aeron-Chair/designers.html

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