Spark™ brings people together to spark conversation, ideas and imagination. Don Chadwick's design has a unique personality, lightness of scale and bright pops of color that bring energy, excitement and color to a space. Made using an innovative co-injection molding process that delivers light, sturdy and easy-to-clean chairs. They are easy to pick up and move around, and most importantly, comfortable. The Spark™ Stacking Chair stacks up to 6 units high on the floor and 10 units high on the Spark™ dolly (available by special order). Wall-saver design, integral glides and stacking spacers protect finishes. Available in six modern colors.
Editors' Choice Award, Best of NeoCon, June 2009, USA.
Notes: Spark™ dolly and ganging device available by special order.
Don Chadwick isn't one of those designers who say that their "real" studio is in their mind. Chadwick's real studio is in Santa Monica, thank you, and anyway, he prefers to call it "an experimental lab."
"We're set up to get dirty and take chances," he says.
His lab apparatus includes saws and grinders, lathes and drill presses and vises--and not one computer-numerically-controlled anything. Computer technology, Chadwick allows, is great for some things, but when he hears someone suggest that a new chair could have just as effectively been designed by computer, he says, politely, "You're out of your mind!"
"The only way to be sure a chair is comfortable is to actually sit in it and make changes along the way," Chadwick says. "A computer can't deal with the subtleties of chair design. Good chairs are too complex."
Too complex? Yes, and not just for computers.
"Most industrial designers don't take furniture design seriously," he says. "They're not trained to get into that kind of detail. It's too personal, too much like surgery. And besides, you have to be in love with this kind of work."
Chadwick's love for furniture design goes back to his childhood, when his cabinetmaker grandfather taught him how to use the tools of the trade--hand tools that required skill, precision, and patience. Later, unlike the other industrial design students at UCLA in the mid-1950s, he focused on furniture. And after hearing a Charles and Ray Eames lecture there, Chadwick was convinced: Furniture offered designers, even industrial designers, the chance to use materials in new, innovative ways--and to make a "real difference" in people's lives.
He attributes at least some of this optimism to the "LA recklessness" he's experienced as a lifelong resident of Southern California. "There's less fear of failure out here, so people are more apt to take risks. It's fertile ground for innovation."
For over two decades now, Chadwick has had a partner in recklessness. "Herman Miller isn't afraid to take chances on new ideas. That's why the company's been successful for so long, and that's one reason why it's challenging to work for them."
The Santa Monica-Zeeland connection continues, the experimental lab whirling with the sounds of belt sanders and power saws. That, after all, is what real design studios do.
Awards/Recognition
Award for Design Excellence, ID magazine, 1970, 71, 73, 74 The Governor's Award, Design Michigan Exhibition, 1977 IBD and IDSA awards for casegoods, 1980 IBD Gold Award for Equa chair, 1984 Time magazine, Design: Best of the Decade for Equa chair, 1990
- From HermanMiller.com
A perfect balance of form and function, Spark™ Stacking Chairs are pleasing to the eye, comfortable and efficient for general purpose use, stacking and storage. Spark™ is GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified® and GREENGUARD Children & Schools℠ certified and can contribute to achieving LEED® credits. The Recycled Black color contains 40% post-industrial recycled content. Tested and approved for use by individuals weighing up to 300 lbs. Waterproof, UV-protected, reinforced polypropylene approved for indoor or outdoor use.
The Spark™ Stacking Chair is covered by Knoll's 24-hour, 7 days a week, 5 year warranty.
Notes: Spark™ dolly and ganging device available by special order.
Love these chairs. They are fantastically beautiful. Just what i needed.
I love these chairs because they are so very comfortable, beautiful and easy to clean. Superb!!!
By: Sandy M., Homeowner ( Lincoln, NE )
Just what I needed
Comfortable and functional. I bought the light gray version of the chairs and they're the perfect complement to the black kitchen table and red couch in my studio apartment.
Only problem has been with YLiving, who didn't inform me that four of my chairs were on back order (arrival date: uncertain) and shipped one of the chairs with a big red mark across the back. Customer service has been good, though, and they're accepting a return on the defective chair.
By: Teets, Designer ( Boston )
Great Chair
We used several of these Spark Stacking Chairs for our School of Rock in New Jersey and plan to use them in all of our centers across the country. Great chair for a great value. Especially like the black & red colors. Shipping was timely and the customer service at YLiving & YLighting is superb.
Herman Miller's 3D Intelligent back material is a seating technology designed for the SAYL™ Chair. The 3-dimensional mesh-like suspension material is stretched from the Y-Tower at the back of the chair just as cables are stretched from the towers of a suspension bridge. The tension is greater in the transition areas, from the thoracic to the lumbar regions and between the lumbar area and sacrum. "Hinge points" allow these areas to flex and support the healthy, forward rotation of the pelvis. At the same time, less tension in other parts of the back encourages a full range of seated movement.
Y-Tower
Y-Tower is the primary support structure of Herman Miller's SAYL™ Chair. The Y-Tower retains tension, replacing the traditional frame of task chairs. It works like the towers from which a bridge is suspended and combines with a 3D Intelligent suspension material to provide frameless back support that hugs the user's back from resting through reclining, forward leaning and twisting motions.
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