Robin Day (designer)

Hille Polypropylene Chair (1963)

Hille Polypropylene Armchair (1967)

Robin Day OBE FCSD (25 May 1915 – 9 November 2010)^[1] was a British chartered industrial and furniture designer.

He married Lucienne Conradi (1917–2010) in 1942; the couple had one child, a daughter.

Career

Hille Forum Sofa (1964) - Habitat reissue pictured in 2007

Day is best known for the injection moulded polypropylene stacking chair, more than 20 million of which have been manufactured. It was one of the first pieces of furniture to fully use the mass-manufacturing opportunities of injection moulding, and was selected as one of eight designs in a 2009 series^[2] of "British Design Classics".

He rose to prominence during the 1951 Festival of Britain. He was a past winner of the Chartered Society of Designers's highest accolade, the Minerva Medal, awarded for lifetime achievement in the field of design. He was a patron of the South Coast Design Forum. ^{[citation needed]}

An exhibition of Lucienne Day's textiles and Robin Day's furniture, "Robin and Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior", was held between 26 March and 26 June 2011 at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.^[3] The exhibition also ran at PM Gallery & House, Ealing, London from 15 July to 4 September 2011.^[4]

See also

• Lucienne Day
• Polypropylene stacking chair

References

External links

• Contemporary Present Day 'Robin Day' Furniture
• The Robin Day Collection
• "The Robin Day Polyprop Chair"
• "Robin + Lucienne Day", Design Museum
• Bibliography at Amazon.com
• The Days: Design and the Modern Interior, by Emma O'Kelly