Compact and refined with neatly tailored slender arms, Lincoln combines contemporary styling with classic comfort. Design your Parker Knoll This exclusively developed software will allow you to visualise your chosen fabrics on your Parker Knoll Sofa or Chair, helping you to create your suite of distinction. “Elegance is the beauty that never fades or goes out of style” “Great lines create beautiful furniture that will never go out of style”Parker knoll armchair no pk 1450-66 can courierWe bought two Parker Knoll chairs from a retailer. The chairs came with a 25-year guarantee for the frame and frame assembly. Ten months on we noticed that, while one chair was perfectly usable, it had sagged slightly. We reported this to the retailer, who sent an upholsterer to make repairs. The upholsterer partly dismantled the chair before deciding that it could not be fixed in situ. Three weeks later we received a letter saying that chipboard at the front of the chair had shattered and that this was not considered to be a manufacturing fault.
I phoned Parker Knoll customer services, who disclaimed all liability, saying my contract was with the retailer. I thought this dubious legally as it was a Parker Knoll guarantee. The problem has been exacerbated by now having an unusable, partly disassembled chair obstructing our living room for two months. Although the chair was hardly used initially, we have had a lot of visitors since it was damaged. You and your wife are in your sixties and live alone and the chairs are only used when you have visitors. You report that no one has knocked into the chair and there had been nothing more violent than a nudge with a vacuum cleaner. The damaged chair had probably not been sat in more than 10 times since Christmas 2012. Yet you had been advised that the damage had probably been caused by a hard knock of some kind, such as someone falling into it. The retailer advised that, in the upholsterer’s opinion, the chair would not have been delivered in this condition, and £90 plus VAT was quoted to have it repaired.
I felt strongly that a guarantee was a guarantee and, particularly with its household name attached to it, Parker Knoll should be picking up the pieces. I spoke to its representative and Parker Knoll agreed to honour the 25-year guarantee. The chair is going to be replaced and another is being lent to you while the right replacement is sorted out. Parker Knoll says that requests about the guarantee are rightly processed through the retailer. Parker Knoll of course did deal with the issue when I got in touch.Dad S ArmchairArmchair ThingsArmchair NavySofa ChairsFunky ChairsChairs FurnitureUpholstered ChairsAls FurnitureDev'S ChairForwardNot sure about the material but I like the contrast (plus always a sucker for grey and yellow)How To Reupholster ChairsTufted ChairsDiy Chair UpholsteryRecover A ChairReupholster Chair DiyRecovering ChairsReupholstered ChairPatchwork UpholsteryReupholstery SlipcoversForwardDIY: Reupholstering & Tufting A Chair - this is an excellent tutorial on how to give an old, dated chair a new look.
Parker Knoll is a British furniture manufacturing company, originally formed by Frederick Parker, a British furniture manufacturer, and Willi Knoll, a German inventor of a new form of sprung furniture. With roots in the manufacture of high-quality furniture, the brand concentrated on mass-market products from the 1930s to the 1990s. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1950, but taken private in 2004. After financial problems, it was acquired out of administration by Sofa Brands International. In recent years, the brand has moved back to the higher-quality end of the domestic furniture market. Frederick Parker was born in Shoreditch in 1845. He started in business as a chair maker in 1869, after an apprenticeship at his father's furniture factory. He decided to concentrate on making high quality furniture by hand. After working initially in London, Parker moved to High Wycombe - a historic centre of the furniture trade in England - in 1898. Part of the business was to make furniture for ocean liners, including the Palladian Lounge of Cunard's RMS Aquitania, and for P&O liner SS Ophir, which was commissioned as a Royal Yacht, HMS Ophir, in 1901 to carry the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V, and Queen Mary) to Australia.
Parker also made furniture for Viceroy's House in New Delhi, and a carved throne for Emperor Haile Selassie. The business was incorporated as a limited company, Frederick Parker and Sons Ltd, in 1904. Frederick's son, Tom Parker, later took over the business. Willi Knoll was born in Germany and served as a fighter pilot the First World War. His experience of uncomfortable seating in his fighter plane was the inspiration for his invention of a new form of sprung furniture, with coiled steel wire strung across the seat and back, which he manufactured in Stuttgart. Knoll came to Britain in 1929 to find a manufacturer for his chairs using his patent. After Frederick Parker's son, Tom, saw a sample of Knoll's chairs at Heal & Son, the two business quickly formed a new company, Parker Knoll, which was launched at the British Industries Fair in February 1931. The new venture was quickly successful, with advertisements in The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph selling low-price tension-sprung furniture in a variety of basic designs.
They also provided furniture for the BBC's Broadcasting House in Portland Place, and Cunard's RMS Queen Mary. Increasing demand led to the construction of a new factory in High Wycombe to a design commissioned from Wallis, Gilbert & Partners in 1935; it was destroyed in a fire in 1970. During the Second World War, the company manufactured A-frames, wooden boxes, and wings for the de Havilland Mosquito, and also repaired gliders, returning to furniture manufacturing after the war. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1950. The company's reclining chairs became a signature item during the 1960s. The company opened new factory in Chipping Norton in the 1960s, which closed in 2003. Other factories in Andover and Bridgend were also closed in 2003. The parent company became Cornwell Parker plc in 1988, and acquired many other furniture manufacturers. The group was acquired by Silentnight Holdings Plc in 2000,[3] and taken private by a company controlled by the Clarke family (the founders of Silentnight) in 2004.
It was bought from Silentnight by Christie-Tyler in March 2005, but Christie-Tyler collapsed into administration within months due to unpaid debts resulting from the financial problems of Courts in November 2004 and Allders in January 2005. It was acquired out of the administration of Christie-Tyler in July 2005 by Sofa Brands International, established by Christie-Tyler's former chief executive Scott Malvenan.[4] Sofa Brands International also acquired other brands, such as G Plan, Derwent Upholstery, Duresta Upholstery and Leabrooks Upholstery. The company is now based in Riddings in Derbyshire. In recent years, the company has returned to its roots at the high-quality end of the furniture market. The current collection is made up of the Classic & Lifestyle sofa ranges. All are designed and manufactured in Derbyshire. When Parker Knoll decided to sell its archive in 1997, a charity - the Frederick Parker Foundation - was established to acquire 170 chairs, 150 carvings and the Frederick Parker Company archive, to maintain as an archive of furniture design and manufacture.