Matthew Hilton (designer)
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Matthew Hilton (1957- ) is a British furniture designer of modern furniture.
Hilton attended Portsmouth College of Art and then Kingston Polytechnic. After graduation he was an industrial designer and model maker until 1984. He designed the "Balzac Armchair"[1] for SCP Limited a company started by Sheridan Coakley in 1984 and now based in Shoreditch, London in 1991. His furniture is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Geffrye Museum, London and the Manchester City Art Gallery. He was elected a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 2005. In 2007 Matthew launched his company Matthew Hilton Limited.
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- McDermott, Catherine (2000) Matthew Hilton: Furniture for our Time Geffryre Museum, Lund Humphries Publishers, London, ISBN 0-85331-807-7
