Drawing

West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant: Sketches

01/01/1996

Sketches, Axonometric, Plan, Elevation, Detail

Four pages with initial sketches of various chair designs.

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Content of

Construction Innovation

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant 1995

Work of Art for Project, Project Furniture

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Tables of various shapes and sizes, chairs and benches designed and made specifically for the restaurant and its upper gallery. Cardboard and wooden mock-ups of the furniture were designed while the building was stil in construction, for reconciling the feeling ...

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Records

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant: Furniture for the West Dean Visitors Center, June 14, 1995 14/06/1995

Construction Innovation, Design Matters, Project Standards

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Four pages of an initial draft with specifications and dimensions of various furniture for the restuarant and upper gallery: 1) Five rectangular tables; 2) Four approximatelly square tables; 3) Five wall bracket tables of the upper gallery; 4) Four ellipse ...

Photographs

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Tables, chairs and benches for the restaurant: Photographs of mockups 01/01/1996

Construction Innovation, Furniture Making, Mock-up

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Source:

Print

Characteristics:

4"x6", Color

Four images of two mock-up studies of a wooden chair.