Ernest Race’s 'Antelope' chair was conceived for the cafés and open terraces of London’s South Bank as part of the 1951 Festival of Britain. For the same occasion, he designed a complementary two-seater bench and the stackable Springbok chair, all three models sharing a construction of slender steel rods. With its exposed metal frame and vividly coloured plywood seat, the Antelope conveyed a playful lightness that captured the optimism of the post-war decade. Evoking contemporary abstract sculpture and most notably the mobiles of Alexander Calder, the chair also references historical furniture forms, particularly the eighteenth-century 'Windsor' chair. The original version’s spherical cast-aluminium feet, suggestive of atomic structures, reflected both a popular visual motif of 1951 and the era’s faith in scientific and technological progress. In 1954, the 'Antelope' chair was awarded a Silver Medal at the 10th Triennale in Milan, marking a major success for the company Race co-founded in 1945 and securing its status as an internationally recognized icon of British design.