Furniture & architecture
Velvet auditorium seat
Furniture workshop (illustrative) · 20th century
A velvet-upholstered seat — the furnishing that frames every evening in the auditorium. Turn it through 360° to see the pile of the velvet and the stitching.
- Object number
- HGO-BT-NT-0001
- Type
- Furniture & architecture
- Collection
- Theatre furniture & architecture
- Maker / artist
- Furniture workshop (illustrative)
- Date
- 20th century
- Materials & technique
- Wooden frame, foam padding, velvet upholstery
- Dimensions
- H 82 cm · W 60 cm · D 58 cm (estimated from the model)
- Related production / event
- Main Auditorium
- Condition
- Good
- Display status
- On display — Display area, second-floor foyer (illustrative)
Keywords: Furniture · Auditorium · 3D
The story of the object
The velvet seat is part of every audience member’s memory of the theatre. The 3D model lets you look closely at the velvet under studio lighting — detail that is hard to see in a flat photograph.
Why digitise in 3D?
- To record the original form before each round of restoration and re-upholstery.
- To support accurate, full-size reproduction.
- To let audiences far away “touch” the spaces of the theatre.
Record & rights
- Provenance
- An illustrative model of the auditorium furniture that will be 3D-scanned during restoration.
- Acquisition
- CC0 sample model used for this demo
- Digitisation
- PBR 3D model (glTF, meshopt compression) · illustrative
- Rights
- CC0 · Khronos glTF Sample Assets (SheenChair, Wayfair)
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