
Gerald Summers: Emotional Utilitarian
Written by
Henry Whaley

Gerald designed this beautiful chair back in 1934 that was inspired by Alvar Aalto's bent plywood chairs of the same decade

Unlike pieces by Aalto, this Summers lounge chair is composed of one, solitary sheet of bent plywood
let’s keep them functional
shaped for purpose pleasant to feel looking quiet
with guts cheerful
picked out with roses?
ugh
nor encrusted with cherubims
dust and death
this is life what about space light and colour?


Kember, bent and shaped in true Summers form

Temple tips, one continuous form