Robin Day Furniture

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Robin day furniture. These designs span almost 60 years of robin day s design career. By dansk jens harald quistgaard. A tenacious and strong willed character robin first won critical acclaim for his furniture. His wife lucienne day née conradi 1917 2010 was a renowned textile designer.
Danish dansk design denmark large teak tray by jens quistgaard 1950s. An accomplished industrial and interior designer he was also active in the fields of graphics and exhibitions. Robin day obe 1915 2010 was one of the most acclaimed and significant british furniture designers of the 20th century. All of the robin day collection are licensed iconic 20th century great british designs.
He trained as an industrial and furniture designer at the royal. Robin day has long been revered in britain as the grandmaster of furniture design. Oct 2 2018 explore absolute modernist s board robin day followed by 137 people on pinterest. The robin and lucienne day foundation is a design education charity established by their daughter paula day in 2012.
Chairs sofas storage cabinets more 16 for sale at 1stdibs. Born in 1915 in high wycombe the historic centre for the british furniture industry he won a scholarship to the royal college of art in london in the early 1930s. Mid 20th century danish mid century modern robin day furniture. Robin day was born in high wycombe in 1915 the son of a police constable.
The official site for furniture designer robin day and textile designer lucienne day tells the story of their lives designs and shows all licensed products. His influential furniture designs introduced materials such as plywood steel and plastic into the modern design world. Q stak was designed in 1952 robin day club chair 1962 leo 1965 delphi range 1968 and polo chair 1973. Robin day obe 1915 2010 and his wife lucienne day furniture and print designers are amongst the most acclaimed and influential british designers from the post war era often put on a par with their american contemporaries charles and ray eames.
Robin day obe rdi fcsd 25 may 1915 9 november 2010 was one of the most significant british furniture designers of the 20th century enjoying a long career spanning seven decades. See more ideas about robin day furniture furniture design.