Design Guild Mark Holder
BA3 Side and Armchair
Name of Designer:
Ernest Race143
2015
Race Furniture
Ernest Race’s iconic 1945 design in sleek, light and immensely strong aluminium heralded a modernistic direction for furniture design in Britain. One of the first die cast chairs in the world, it won a gold medal at the Milan Furniture Fair and over 250,000 have been manufactured to date. The robust chassis onto which a plywood seat and back can be assembled allows for consistency of build. Upholstered parts can be exchanged, a service that Race still offers to BA3 owners, some of whom have owned the chairs since the 1940s.
Ernest Race was a mid-twentieth century furniture designer who’s iconic designs continue to be produced to this day by race furniture. He pioneered new mass manufacturing techniques for furniture in the post-war world which had previously been almost exclusively craft-based.
