Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture: 1931–1940
• Hatje Cantz • ISBN 9783775757614
Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture: 1931–1940
• Hatje Cantz • ISBN-13 9783775757614
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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,
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