GORDON RUSSELL DESK

Gordon Russell

GORDON RUSSELL

UK

An amazing Rosewood and Mahogany pedestal desk dating from 1958. Designed and produced by Gordon Russell.

The desk as some amazing rosewood grain on all sides of the drawer section including the back. Perfect for room dividing. Along long clean lines there is top quality craftsmanship.

A meticulous visionary and designer of furniture who made the business of good design a matter of popular concern.

Russell`s working career follows a transition from his Cotswold Arts and Crafts training during the 1920s through to his conversion to a furniture maker of thoroughly modern styles and a commitment to design reform.

In 1938 he set up a retailing consortium, the Good Furnishing Group, for selling well-designed, mass-produced furniture. He was the favoured candidate to spearhead the government`s wartime utility furniture scheme using top designers to break the British public`s tradition of reproduction furniture and bring in a more simple, honest, modern style. In this he achieved some success and further appointments followed. Russell was director of the Council of Industrial Design (COID) 1947 to 1959, executive committee member of the FOB and president of the DIA from 1959 until 1962.

Height:72cm

Width:167cm

Depth:87cm

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