Robin and Lucienne Day

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Robin and Lucienne Day, the first-ever full-length monograph on their designs, features never-before-seen archival material along with over color images of the full range of their work, including furniture, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, interiors, appliances, exhibit designs, and graphics.5/5(2).

Robin and Lucienne Day book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Hailed as the British counterparts to Charles and Ray Eames, Robin /5.

Robin and Lucienne Day Pioneers of Cont Hardcover – Decem by Robin Day (Author)5/5(5). 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. The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation is a design education charity established by their daughter Paula Day in This updated book celebrates and offers an insight into their remarkable success and was  specially produced to accompany the Exhibition Robin and Lucienne Day: Design and The Modern Interior at Pallant House Gallery.

Hailed as the British counterparts to Charles and Ray Eames, Robin and Lucienne Day electrified the British design scene in the s with their startling furniture and textile designs.

Indeed, their influence over the next five decades has been so profound that their early products were Author: Lesley Jackson. Robin Day, the son of a police constable in High Wycombe, and Désirée Lucienne Robin and Lucienne Day book, who grew up in Croydon, the daughter of Belgian reinsurance broker, met at a Royal College of Art dance in She was in her final year studying printed textiles.

He had already left the college inhaving specialised in furniture and interior design. Robin and Lucienne Day, the first-ever full-length monograph on their designs, features never-before-seen archival material along with over color images of the full range of their work, including furniture, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, interiors, appliances, exhibit designs, and graphics.5/5(4).

For these room settings he needed a wallpaper and furnishing fabric that would sit comfortably with his modern furniture. Provence wallpaper, a previous design by Lucienne Day, was chosen for one room to illustrate an affordable interior.

Lucienne also conceived a new textile design, Calyx, intended to complement Robin's more costly living/dining room. The Robin Day Furniture Design Awardwill send state schools copies of Lesley Jackson’s book Modern British Furniture to award to their best GCSE design and technology student; while the The Royal College of Art Robin & Lucienne Day prize for ethical and sustainable design will be given out annually within the university, both Robin.

"Robin and Lucienne Day, the first-ever full-length monograph on their designs, features never-before-seen archival material along with over color images of the full range of their work, including furniture, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, interiors, appliances, exhibit designs, and graphics.

6 Information from the Lucienne Day Accounts book. Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation. 7 Jackson, L., Robin and Lucienne Day; Pioneers of Contemporary Design, Mitchell Beazley,p.

The development of their styles can be traced in Lesley Jackson's book Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers in Modern Design, published in An exhibition of Lucienne Day's textiles and Robin Day's furniture, "Robin and Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior", will be held in Spring at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester — the city where the Days retired inin order Author: Poul Webb.

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Robin Day (designer) This article is about the designer. For the broadcaster, see Robin Day (broadcaster). Robin Day, OBE, RDI, FCSD (25 May – 9 November ) was one of the most significant British furniture designers of the 20th century, enjoying a long career spanning seven : 25 MayHigh Wycombe, England.

Robin and Lucienne Day Went to see the Robin and Lucienne Day exhibition at Chichester. I also left behind Ardizzone's Johnny's Bad Day, a picture book that made me well up. Email This BlogThis. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest. 1 comment: Anonymous 7 March at Robin and Lucienne Day in Robin & Lucienne Cheyne Walk Day Foundation tif living room, Culture Trip (CT): When did both Lucienne and Robin get their big breaks in the industry.

Paula Day (PD): My parents both achieved public recognition for their work for the Festival of Author: Charlotte Luxford. This book, Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Modern Design, which showcases both Lucienne's work, and the work of her equally talented husband Robin, is now at the top of my wish list.

Robin Day's Armchair for the Royal Festival Hall, And check out these cool Jack Purcell Converse sneakers made with Lucienne's Trio pattern. Although Robin Day and Lucienne Day are often viewed as a single design partnership, like a British Charles and Ray Eames, Andrew Casey’s book gives the reader a real appreciation of just how significant the work of Lucienne Day was in its own right.

During the early fifties, Lucienne Day started to develop a new series of modern and economical patterns using her preferred medium of black. Lucienne Day and Calyx. Inworking alongside her husband Robin at the Festival of Britain exhibition, she developed a variety of new styles in both fabric textiles and wallpapers.

While Robin provided interior design and room sets, Lucienne took the opportunity to let her imagination run loose.As Britain's most distinguished designers of the post-war period, Robin and Lucienne Day pursued celebrated careers for more than fifty years.

This updated book celebrates and offers an insight into their remarkable success.We are indebted to Lesley Jackson for permission to print this article, first published in the Independent, 13th February, Lesley Jackson is the authority on Robin and Lucienne Day, and she was curator of the Exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, ‘Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Contemporary Design’.