Discoveries of an enigmatic and creative twenty-something who is at present relatively unknown in the heady world of the arts but whose sole ambition is to expound the virtues of all things obscure, peverse and incongruous to this sometimes feckless genre. The aim of this blog is to provide a world of the new and fascinating by tapping in to the forgotten or relatively undiscovered.
Tuesday 19 April 2011
Day to Day design
Robin and Lucienne Day were a pretty amazing partnership...
Lucienne Day's work combined organic shapes with bright patterns inspired by contemporary abstract painters such as Kandisky and Miro. She believed that good design should be affordable and
her breakthrough print was 'Calyx', a brightly-coloured textile that she created for the Festival of Britain in 1951.
Lucienne stood out not just because she was a highly successful working woman during a time in which many women didn't work, but also due to her creative partnership with her husband, furniture designer Robin Day. For 50 years they worked, together but independently, in a shared studio, and their house grew to be considered the epitome of 1950s sophistication.
I am so inspired not only by the way they managed to work together but also Lucienne's patterns are so iconic that they have a timeless graphic style that remains so prevalent today. I recently visited Alfie's Antiques in Marylebone and they wanted about £250 for a metre of Lucienne's fabric...timeless design doesn't come cheap...
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