Gerald Summers: Emotional Utilitarian
To coincide with our new collection, we’re celebrating history’s Emotional Utilitarians. Designer-makers who committed themselves to the very plainly functional, with a touch of romanticism. For our ‘bent lug’ frames, Handel and Kember, we looked to Gerald Summers’ obsessive experimentation with plywood furniture.
Written by
Henry Whaley
let’s keep them functional
shaped for purpose pleasant to feel looking quiet
with guts cheerful
picked out with roses?
ugh
nor encrusted with cherubims
dust and death
this is life what about space light and colour?