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Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture: 1931-1940
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ISBN13: 9783775757614
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: Jan 7 2025
Pages: 360
Weight: 3.65
Height: 1.50 Width: 8.66 Depth: 11.42
Language: English
Inside the interwar British design store that pioneered midcentury modern plywood furniture
In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers (1899-1967) and his partner, Marjorie Butcher (1909-96), opened their London shop Makers of Simple Furniture. A small company, they produced made-to-order furniture in limited quantities. Until the firm's closing in 1940, Makers of Simple Furniture produced hundreds of ingenious furniture designs in plywood. Conceived, in Summers' words, as furniture for the concrete age, this singular body of work shaped the notion of the modern interior in Britain.
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