Robin Day Chevron Chair, 1959

Chevron chair by Robin Day.

The Chevron chair is a distinctive, yet simple design that employs a bold and graphic profile giving dynamic character to a modest lounge chair. 

Designed in 1959, the Chevron continued a dialogue Day began in the late 1940s in which a minimal steel rod frame provided support and structure for a host of seating and table designs.

The wooden seat profile is an evolution of the 1952 Slat chair, though the Chevron is a far more sophisticated composition of materials and components. The Chevron was conceived as both an armchair and an open-framed version.

“As a modernist design with an economic approach to aesthetics and a focus on functionality, the Chevron chair owns a personality that marks it as meaningful production and a design with longevity. We are privileged to produce a piece with such integrity.”
twentytwentyone

twentytwentyone worked closely with the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation to ensure the new production is true to the dimensions, details and materials of the initial Hille production. The seat was originally made using tropical hardwoods such as mahogany or teak; this has been replaced by sustainable FSC certified walnut. The manufacture of this unit is carried out to exacting standards by Isokon Plus.

“Wonderful to see my father’s Chevron chair beautifully brought back to life by twentytwentyone. This is such a characteristic Robin Day design: unpretentious yet elegant, apparently simple yet structurally sophisticated, the Pirelli webbing which supports the back cushion unapologetically exposed. This was the design chosen by my father’s close friend and colleague Peter Moro (one of the architects of the Royal Festival Hall) to furnish the living room of his own home. It’s the perfect companion piece to twentytwentyone’s reissue of my father’s Reclining Chair, echoing its concept and aesthetic on a more modest scale.”
– Paula Day, founder and chair of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation

The iconic design is suited to both domestic and commercial settings. The components are replaceable, and cushions can be re-covered, furthering the sustainability and lifespan of the chair – enhancing the design’s timeless qualities. 

The Chevron chair is part of the Robin Day Collection®  made by twentytwentyone under licence from the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation.

Archive images courtesy of The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation.