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Chair designed by Humphrey Ikin

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Chair designed by Humphrey Ikin

Furniture designer and maker Humphrey Ikin has been called ‘a pioneer of the new Pacific design’, which blends South Pacific symbolism with the functional qualities of European modernism. His furniture pieces, such as this chair, are works of art that are comfortable and durable as well.

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Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, Crafts and applied arts – Craft in the 1990s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3603/chair-designed-by-humphrey-ikin (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds, published 3 March 2009.