19 Chairs is a celebration of collaboration, connecting creatives in isolation. The online charity auction is now live at 19chairs.co.uk, where all 19 Chairs are available to bid on for the entire month on May. Bidding for all chairs at half-an-hour intervals on May 31st, and all proceeds will be donated equally to Age UK and Resourcing Racial Justice. 19 Chairs will be publicly reunited for the first time at Protein Studios, Shoreditch between May 20th and 23rd.
19 Chairs is a project created by two South London brothers, Tom & Will Butterfield. As two emerging designers living at home under the same roof during lockdown, they decided to utilise their free time and get creative. Over a period of 19 days, together the brothers created one chair a day, each unique in their own right. Each chair was then delivered to a 19 leading artists and designers worldwide where they were asked to reinterpret in their distinguished aesthetic. The line-up includes Tom Dixon, Es Devlin, Jean Jullien and Sabine Marcelis amongst others, who were briefed to ‘reinvent, reimagine or redesign’ the chairs ‘with an older person in mind’.
| Hours | Thursday5:00 PM - 11:00 PM; Friday to Saturday; 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Sunday; 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
| Venue | Protein Studios |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM |
| City | London |
About
Tom and Will Butterfield
Tom and Will Butterfield have a shared talent and passion for design and craft. Tom is a Furniture and Product Designer, who has worked with Normann Copenhagen, Johannes Torpe and Tom Dixon. Will has recently graduated from Kingston School of Art, working as a Graphic Designer and Art Director. Their practices reflect a fascination with the materiality of design and object-making, which inspired their innovative approach to designing 19 different types of chairs.
