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NameChair for Winter's Hairdressing Salon
ProductionGarth Chester; designer; 1955-1960; New Zealand
Classificationchairs
Materialswood, steel, leather, plastic
DimensionsOverall: 630mm (width), 885mm (height), 650mm (depth)
Registration NumberGH024244
Credit linePurchased 2013
Overview
These Garth Chester chairs were commissioned by Monte Winter of Winter's Hairdressing for his salon situated in the Smith & Caughey Building in Queen Street. The salon was established with much fanfare in 1929 when it was then known as Sareta's Beauty Salon. Monte Winter, an entrepreneurial young hairdresser, purchased the business in 1942 and went on to establish Winter's Hairdressing School.
Winter commissioned over a dozen of these chairs for his busy salon.
Chester was no stranger to working for beauty salons. In 1953 he designed the furniture for another of Auckland’s leading beauty salons, Kays Beauty Salon.