To make the collection known to a wider audience the trustees have recently issued a short catalogue of 26 choice pieces forming a chronological series from a Charles II single chair with original leather upholstery to Robin Day’s revolutionary polypropylene chair of 1963.
Copies are available at £10.80 including postage from Marigold Honey, Day’s Cottage, North Stoke, Walling-ford, Oxfordshire OX10 6BL.
They can be contacted via email on thehoneys@beeb.net. Income from the catalogue will be used to fund further conservation and care of the collection.
Parker chairs now on record
The Frederick Parker Collection of Chairs, whose long-term future once looked uncertain, has now found a secure home as a study collection at London Metropolitan University.
