Modern British Furniture by Lesley Jackson

Modern British Furniture by Lesley Jackson

Focusing on design ingenuity, Modern British Furniture pinpoints the most inventive British designers and companies from 1945 to the present – from early postwar pioneers such as Ernest Race, Robin Day and Robert Heritage, to iconoclastic figures such as Peter Murdoch, William Plunkett and Max Clendinning, to today’s global superstars led by Tom Dixon, Ron Arad and Jasper Morrison. Exploring the free-spirited and resourceful character of British design, this is a story of entrepreneurs who spearheaded their own companies – Lucian Ercolani at Ercol, Terence Conran at Habitat and Rodney Kinsman at OMK, among others – and the creative alliances between impassioned individuals and enlightened manufacturers, such as Frank Guille at Kandya. The book also looks at collaborations with international companies and foreignborn designers, such as El Ultimo Grito, who have adopted the UK as their base and injected further variety and spice into British furniture design.

Lesley Jackson is a writer, curator and design historian specializing in post-war design. Her books include Contemporary Architecture and Interiors of the 1950s (1994), The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution (1998), Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Contemporary Design (2001), and Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Visionary Textiles and Modern Art (V&A, 2012).

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ISBN 13	9781851777594
ISBN 10	1851777598
Titel	Modern British Furniture
Autor	Lesley Jackson
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	V & A Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2013-10-07
Seitenanzahl	320
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.