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TARDIS Builders :: TARDIS Interior :: Console Reference :: Tardis chair Author Topic: Tardis chair (Read 969 times) meantimebob Castellan member is offline Joined: Sept 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 190 Location: London Karma: 1,153 Tardis chair « Thread Started on Feb 18, 2006, 3:34am » Apologies if this is already widely known but its something I only discovered for myself today and thought others on here might be interested. For some odd reason, I've always really liked that wooden chair which used to be in the console room. It was first seen in the Unearthly Child at the far right of this photo and continued to make appearances in the programme... (a shillpages screen cap) right up until season 14, where it looked as though it had finally been moved back to the room where it rightfully belonged... Isn't it a lovely bit of design? I often wondered if it was just a stock piece of prop furniture from the BBC store or if it had been especially designed and constructed for the programme (unlikely I guess). And then, today, I came across this... the throne room of King Minos on Crete and just take a look at his throne! Now isn't that interesting? And here's a wooden replica as well. So, what I would like to ask those of you who know far more about these things than I do, is: is this widely known? Were these copies readily available in furniture shops nearly 50 years ago and if so, where could I lay my eager hands (or bottom) on one? And lastly, does that finally prove the Doctor wasn't merely being glib when he talked about that ball of string Romana found in the hold? « Last Edit: Feb 18, 2006, 4:09am by meantimebob » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Scarfwearer Administrator member is offline Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 162 Location: Somewhere beginning with 'S' Karma: 12 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #1 on Feb 18, 2006, 9:04am » Fascinating... I'd often wondered about that chair and even briefly considered trying to make one. Now you've found out what it is, there's some hope of finding one: I've no idea if it is/was a popular reproduction or not, but since it's a copy of something reasonably iconic there's a good chance that there are quite a few in the wild. Nice find! Crispin « Last Edit: Feb 18, 2006, 9:07am by Scarfwearer » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Dematerialiser Chancellor member is offline TO DO: Final weathering paint job, fit lights and sounds. Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 628 Location: UK Karma: 1,160 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #2 on Feb 18, 2006, 10:47am » wow - well spotted Meantime!! That's an almost impossible bit of research...! cheers Chris « Last Edit: Feb 18, 2006, 10:58am by Dematerialiser » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "Gosh, that takes me back. Or forward. That's the trouble with time travel; you can never remember." meantimebob Castellan member is offline Joined: Sept 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 190 Location: London Karma: 1,153 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #3 on Feb 18, 2006, 12:41pm » It was pure serendipity. I was in a market yesterday, looking at a book stall, leafing through a tome on archaeology and there it was. I was more excited than a grown man has a right to be over such things. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Dematerialiser Chancellor member is offline TO DO: Final weathering paint job, fit lights and sounds. Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 628 Location: UK Karma: 1,160 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #4 on Feb 23, 2006, 10:40am » LOL! It's a brilliant find. Now - if we can just use the same method to find some of the lost episodes.... Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "Gosh, that takes me back. Or forward. That's the trouble with time travel; you can never remember." teletran Castellan member is offline A long shank knave with a mighty nose Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 345 Location: Perth, Western Australia Karma: 12 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #5 on May 16, 2006, 3:42am » notice that the prop version has the half moon detail under the legs which is present on original yet missing from the replica Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged I suppose you could take the normal precautions against an atomic blast. Sticky tape on the windows and that sort of thing. Doctor Who Time traveller member is offline Joined: Oct 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 9 Location: Greensboro, NC - USA Karma: 0 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #6 on Aug 24, 2006, 2:52am » Look carefully at the wooden replica. You can see where the wooden moon design between the front legs is just broken off. That chair did have it originally. I wonder if Ebay might have one. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged There is no point in being grown up, if you can't be childish sometimes. tardisrooms Time traveller member is offline Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 3 Karma: 0 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #7 on Mar 28, 2007, 1:33pm » I have to wonder if it was always the same chair, or if the bbc started out with a set of 8 all those decades ago. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged karsthotep Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 32 Location: Vermont Karma: 5 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #8 on Mar 30, 2007, 12:18am » well I'll be dipped Karst Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,360 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 170 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #9 on Mar 30, 2007, 7:10am » If anyone has any caps, I've also seen it recently, rewatcthing season 15... Leela "We haven't been in here before..." Doctor "YOU haven't been in here before" The only screencaps I can find don't show the chair but they do show another piece of furniture from Season 14's wooden console room... One of the arms falls off that hatstand when the TARDIS takes a tumble in the vortex (if you look carefully, you can see some string pulling it over!!) Anywho, back to the chair... If anyone has any *cough* digital versions of season 15, some caps could nice to see -Marc Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - My Space Tom Chancellor member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 684 Location: New Brunswick, Canada Karma: 33 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #10 on Mar 30, 2007, 12:53pm » Quote: Anywho, back to the chair... If anyone has any *cough* digital versions of season 15, some caps could nice to see -Marc How about instead some more screencaps of Leela looking saucy? T Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,360 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 170 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #11 on Mar 30, 2007, 2:51pm » Quote: Quote: Anywho, back to the chair... If anyone has any *cough* digital versions of season 15, some caps could nice to see -Marc How about instead some more screencaps of Leela looking saucy? T Oh Tom! Thats FAR too easy... that would basically be ANY pic of Leela Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - My Space jordanno2 Time Lord member is offline hello everybody and my middle name is doc honest Joined: Jun 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 104 Location: George town tasmainia Karma: 2 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #12 on Apr 5, 2007, 12:46am » more of the hatstand Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged http://www.freewebs.com/jorbilldoctorwhosite/ Note that I might not be able to reply for a week due to computer avaliability also http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/drwho1990/ Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,360 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 170 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #13 on Apr 5, 2007, 8:09am » Zeb, dude... thats not the same hatstand from the wooden console room... Nice quality grabs though -Marc Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - My Space kowboi69 Time traveller member is offline Joined: May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 1 Karma: 0 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #14 on Sept 27, 2007, 6:52pm » After seeing this, I did some googling, and found this copy of the knossos chair: "Wooden copy of stone throne from Knossos, made to stand in the hall at Evans' house at Oxford. Courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford" http://crete.classics.ox.ac.uk/U3S1/U3S1L2.html « Last Edit: Sept 27, 2007, 6:54pm by kowboi69 » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged ironageman Castellan member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 458 Location: the Greta Garbo Home Karma: 159 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #15 on Sept 27, 2007, 7:27pm » Curiouser and curiouser. Inspired by this successful googling, I've found that there's also one at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged come with us now on a journey through time and space meantimebob Castellan member is offline Joined: Sept 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 190 Location: London Karma: 1,153 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #16 on Sept 27, 2007, 9:26pm » terrific research, guys. Now if anyone is in oxford and could go measure that chair if possible - that'd be great. I wonder how difficult it would be to make one? Or maybe get a chippie to put one together. Its a lovely piece of furniture. As for Davison's hatstand - why is it bent? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DoctorWho8 Lord President member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 890 Location: Bloomington, IL, USA Karma: 1,037 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #17 on Sept 27, 2007, 9:33pm » Quote: As for Davison's hatstand - why is it bent? Probably warped in storage? Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,360 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 170 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #18 on Sept 28, 2007, 4:45am » Quote: Quote: As for Davison's hatstand - why is it bent? Probably warped in storage? Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff Those kinds of hatstands are often several bits bolted together by threaded rods. Its easy for the rods to bend, or not to be screwed together properly... Or the other answer is, this is Doctor Who... lots of the props got bent, quite often! See Tom and the Sonic Screwdriver... -Marc Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - My Space Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,360 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 170 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #19 on Oct 8, 2007, 6:10pm » Here it is again! -Marc Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - My Space Timegirl Administrator member is offline Joined: May 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 983 Location: not in a galaxy far far away Karma: 105 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #20 on Mar 9, 2009, 9:24pm » This is another chair from the TARDIS, this one is from the sleeping quarters as seen in The Edge of Destruction. (sorry not a great picture of the chair, it’s the chrome one at the back) After hunting around a bit I think it was made by the 1950’s Swedish designers Dahlens Dalum This one has the right back but a different base. I really like the chair and I’ve been checking ebay – I nearly found one here item number: 270353420577 The right design but with a different back The same chair was seen in the Silver Carrier spaceship in The Wheel in Space , in fact two of them. If I didn’t believe in the ability to travel in time and space, this might have worried me. A preference for modernist Swedish design must have been universewide! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Latest animation: 2001: A Who Odyssey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXnV1UNbTuM DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #21 on Mar 10, 2009, 5:22am » TG, I did check that out, boy very close, only if the back rest had metal spindles running vertically that be the ticket... You might be able to get a metal fabricator to spot weld on some metal spindles if it's a 'must have' sort of thing... Nice find though! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged teletran Castellan member is offline A long shank knave with a mighty nose Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 345 Location: Perth, Western Australia Karma: 12 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #22 on Aug 7, 2009, 2:47pm » Two more similar but distinct chairs, sort of medieval I guess. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged I suppose you could take the normal precautions against an atomic blast. Sticky tape on the windows and that sort of thing. dustyfro Castellan member is offline Build inspired by madness Joined: Apr 2009 Gender: Female Posts: 151 Location: Oregon, USA Karma: 10 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #23 on Aug 23, 2009, 5:22am » And then there's the sinking down looks-like-it-was-taken-from-the-back-of-a-minivan seat from the new series. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Hannah celation Castellan member is offline Joined: Nov 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 229 Location: UK Karma: 17 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #24 on Aug 23, 2009, 7:57pm » ...and the one that I'm particularly interested in - the studded one with the tassles. (That sounded a bit odd - not because it has studs and tassles, you understand...) Here behind Ian as he does his best Tony Hart impression. This one would be pretty easy to make... C. « Last Edit: Aug 23, 2009, 7:58pm by celation » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged graybags34 Time Lord member is offline Joined: Jan 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 61 Karma: 4 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #25 on Aug 25, 2009, 9:26pm » "Tony Hart impression" I've always thought that too! Sorry, slightly off topic, but what is that Ian is holding? Looks slightly theodolitish! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged teletran Castellan member is offline A long shank knave with a mighty nose Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 345 Location: Perth, Western Australia Karma: 12 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #26 on Aug 26, 2009, 8:03am » Naval sextant (I think?) Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged I suppose you could take the normal precautions against an atomic blast. Sticky tape on the windows and that sort of thing. Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,360 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 170 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #27 on Aug 26, 2009, 9:44am » Aug 26, 2009, 8:03am, teletran wrote: Naval sextant (I think?) Its certainly pointing at his navel.... Oh THATS what you meant Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - My Space starcross Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Sept 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 14 Karma: 0 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #28 on Sept 30, 2009, 3:10am » Well yet another long reaching thread that I decided to have a go at. The OP had mentioned the Minos Throne Chair. Well I rather liked the looks of it too so I thought i would see what could be made of it. TARDIS Chair - Minos Throne Blueprints - Rev A Sadly I think I sort of got it terribly wrong. Those ancient designers really liked the odd ball curves and ellipses. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy was using the shadow of the sun against a mountain outcropping to make this one. Either way its serviceable enough I think for someone to use as a stepping stone of sorts. Enjoy. ~Starcross Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,360 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 170 Re: Tardis chair « Reply #29 on Sept 30, 2009, 5:30am » awesome! 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