Dining chair

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Chair designed for Cafe Gandolfi, Glasgow.

Born in Helsby, Cheshire. Sculptor and craftsman in wood, who worked mainly on commission. He studied at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham and Glasgow School of Art, graduating in sculpture. Stead won a travelling scholarship in 1975 and seven years later a Scottish Development Agency Crafts Fellowship. Because of his specially designed furniture and activities such as tree replanting and the establishment of a community plantation on the Scottish Borders, Stead was the subject of several television films. Showed at such venues as Scottish Craft Centre and Collins Gallery in Glasgow; also widely on the continent and in America; and had first sculpture show at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, in 1990, another at Ancrum Gallery, Ancrum, 1992. Giles Sutherland collaborated with Stead to product [i]Explorations in Wood: the furniture and sculpture of Tim Stead[/i], published in 1993. Stead's later commissions included The Peephole, at Museum of Modern Art Glasgow, 1996, which allows the viewer to participate in the artwork, and the Millennium Clock, Royal Museum, Edinburgh.

Mike Healey, GSA Head of Design, 1999.

Born in Helsby, Cheshire. Sculptor and craftsman in wood, who worked mainly on commission. He studied at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham and Glasgow School of Art, graduating in sculpture. Stead won a travelling scholarship in 1975 and seven years later a Scottish Development Agency Crafts Fellowship. Because of his specially designed furniture and activities such as tree replanting and the establishment of a community plantation on the Scottish Borders, Stead was the subject of several television films. Showed at such venues as Scottish Craft Centre and Collins Gallery in Glasgow; also widely on the continent and in America; and had first sculpture show at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, in 1990, another at Ancrum Gallery, Ancrum, 1992. Giles Sutherland collaborated with Stead to product [i]Explorations in Wood: the furniture and sculpture of Tim Stead[/i], published in 1993. Stead's later commissions included The Peephole, at Museum of Modern Art Glasgow, 1996, which allows the viewer to participate in the artwork, and the Millennium Clock, Royal Museum, Edinburgh.

oak with decorative 'open' back
Dimensions: 342 x 558 x 970 mm

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