{"id":69064,"date":"2017-10-15T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-father-of-british-furniture-on-40-years-of-parnham-college\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T05:03:20","slug":"the-father-of-british-furniture-on-40-years-of-parnham-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-father-of-british-furniture-on-40-years-of-parnham-college\/","title":{"rendered":"The father of British furniture on 40 years of Parnham College"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOpened four decades ago, Parnham College in Dorset founded by John Makepeace, quietly transformed British designIt started with a table: a low, glass-topped timber square designed to be easily dismantled and folded into a crate (see picture below). Sold through Heal\u2019s in the early 1960s for the princely sum of \u00a36, it was furniture designer John Makepeace\u2019s first big success. It also marked the beginning of a career that would see him evolve from a maker of mass-market hits and large-scale institutional commissions to beautifully crafted one-offs.In Denmark for a holiday, I started to see what contemporary designers were doing. And that was that, really Continue reading…
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