Vintage Peacock Chair
£275.00
Original 1970s Emmanuelle Peacock Chair.
The best known of these, dating from in 1967, features the Black Panther Party's founder and Minister of Defense, Huey Newton, seated on a Peacock chair, holding a rifle and a spear, flanked by traditional, African shields. Seven years later, in 1974, the chair featured prominently in the popular French pornographic film, Emmanuelle; the film's star Sylvia Kristel posed topless on a Peacock Chair for the film's poster.
Since then this early 20th century chair, once the product of prison labour, has come to symbolise a certain hot-blooded sense of freedom and licensciousness.