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1991

  • We exhibited this object.

  • Work on this object began.

1992

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Design for Vik-ter Chair

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1991 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is graphite, gold pencil on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Dakota Jackson's "vik-ter" chair is the result of the desire to produce an elegant looking chair that can be stacked, that is comfortable, and that can be produced and sold at a moderate cost. Its wooden seat and back are padded with flexible rubber connectors at their joinings to the metal frame. Robotic technology is used in the manufacturing process to reduce costs.

It is credited Gift of Dakota Jackson.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 36 × 30 cm (14 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite at upper right: D11; measurements at upper left; goldpencil mark at upper right

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Vik-ter Chair; USA; graphite, gold pencil on tracing paper; H x W: 36 × 30 cm (14 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Gift of Dakota Jackson; 1992-58-59

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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