John Makepeace
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John Makepeace (b 1939), OBE, FCSD, FRSA,is a British furniture designer who established a workshop in 1963.
He founded The Parnham College for Furniture Makers in Dorset in 1980. One of its first students was Viscount Linley, nephew to Queen Elizabeth II.
The work of Makepeace is highly innovative and also highly exclusive, commanding amongst the highest prices in the world for bespoke contemporary furniture. Paradoxically he once designed furniture for Habitat for the mass market.
His influences and inspirations are many ; 'dynamic traditions - buildings, modern architecture, science, structural engineering, behavioural patterns and the human form' (from Furniture Today).
Makepeace was a main exponent of the Seventies British Craft Revival and his influence is very strong among numerous workshops in Britain today, not least because his entrepreneural wizadry which has rubbed off on many of his students.
John Makepeace continues to design and make furniture exploring form, structure and a range of exotic materials.
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