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"The Art Gallery of South Australia has released a limited edition armchair by renowned Australian furniture designer Khai Liew to commemorate the acquisition of \u201CCollec+ors,\u201D a suite of furniture created by Khai Liew in conjunction with eminent Australian artists Julie Blyfield, Kirsten Coelho, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Jessica Loughlin, Bruce Nuske, and Prue Venables.Liew\u2019s armchair is crafted in American black walnut that evokes the spirit of the Arts and Crafts Movement, a style that that influenced the \u201CCollec+ors\u201D works. Khai\u2019s much loved mitre joint is employed in the chair, a construction technique which requires much skill and exactitude and which you also see in his \u201CGallery\u201D benches for the Art Gallery, incidentally Khai\u2019s first commission, designed 17 years ago. While the limited edition looks elemental, like much of Khai\u2019s work, the construction is complex and each chair has taken around 45 hours to make.Wendy Walker, author of the \u201CCollec+ors\u201D catalogue, wrote of Liew: \u201CIn an ongoing invigoration of his design vocabulary, the confident designs for \u2018Collec+ors\u2019 simultaneously incorporate and reinvent representative elements from earlier works, whilst exploring the possibilities offered by collaboration \u2013 the angularity and linenfold strategies of the \u2018Kirsten\u2019 chair; the strict geometry of the Jessica screen (strikingly aligned with glass panels); the chamfered surfaces and unprecedented organic, Art-Nouveau-like quality of the \u2018Julie\u2019 cabinet on a stand; the flow and diminution of mass integral to the \u2018Gwyn\u2019 serving table and the almost animated disposition of the \u2018Prue\u2019 cupboard.\u201DThe armchair comes in three upholstery options: linen, leather and wool. There are two wool and one leather chair remaining at 11 February 2013. All funds raised through the sale of the limited edition will be directed towards the acquisition of \u201CCollec+ors\u201D for the Gallery\u2019s permanent collection.Khai Liew was born in Malaysia of Chinese parentage and moved to Australia in 1971. His early pragmatism serendipitously led to a decades-long championing of Australian colonial furniture. Liew has exhibited at institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Design Museum London and his pieces are represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the Art Gallery of South Australia.&amp;nbsp;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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