Marilyn Sainty's Barely-There Cocktail Chair

A Marilyn Sainty cocktail chair, 1988, crafted in New Zealand by fashion and furniture designer Marilyn Sainty. Comprising of a painted wooden seat, a powder-coated steel structure and a rubber arm and backrest, recycled from a milking-machine hose. In 2005, Marilyn Sainty announced that she was retiring from making clothes to exclusively 'Grow trees and make furniture'. With this chair, she had the intention of creating something 'Barely there'. Carefully selecting and re-using simple materials, she refined the geometric forms until creating an abstract and elegant design giving off an impression of lightness, height 31.50 in., width 35.43 in., depth 25.59 in. Provenance: bought from Gus Fisher gallery in 1986., exhibition: Vanished Delft, Hand-made material culture at the Pah homestead, 14 March - 14May 2017.