The Australian pioneer of moulded plastic furniture Harry Sebel, passed on 18 September 2008 at 92.

In the early seventies the fabled wooded school chair was passed over for Sebel’s famed – Slim-n-Comfy Sidechair. Back at the time, 70s school children liken this new chair to something that ascended from space – with it’s organic shell and insect like legs. Since it’s inception this unassuming chair has been sold in the tens of millions and can be found on all corners of the earth.

Complicated solutions to any problem are fairly easy to come by, but it takes genius plus a fair amount of perspiration to arrive at a simple solution. Harry Sebel (24-10-1915 to 18-9-2008)

Amongst the many projects and products, Sebel also conceived and developed the Sebel Town House hotel complex in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney in 1963. Sebel created this lair to court and lure international rockstars, pop queens, the rich, the famous, hangers-on and want-a-bes in town. A place to loose one’s self, part with a little money, and potentially be immortalised in black & white on the bar’s dimly lit walls. Like many institutions in Sydney the famed Sebel of Elizabeth Bay has become appartments.

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