PP/14/2/3/3 - Changing Character of Furniture Factors Affecting Design

Reference code

PP/14/2/3/3

Level of description

Item

Title

Changing Character of Furniture Factors Affecting Design

Date/s

1954

Quantity & Format

2 sub-items Lectures

Personal name

Harris, Anthony, fl. 1954

Subject

Furniture
Furniture industry and trade
Council of Industrial Design
Furniture Development Council

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Scope and content

PP/14/2/3/40, PP/14/2/3/43

Two copies of a lecture given by Jack Pritchard, one typed and handwritten annotated draft and one typed. "Final draft - as read by JCP at Harvard University Yale in October 1954." Jack Pritchard traces the changing character of furniture since the 18th Century in Britain and in the U.S.A. since 1930. He compares the American and British furniture markets and discusses factors leading to the increase in the mass production of "experimental and imaginative design" in the U.S.A.. Jack Pritchard briefly discusses the role of the Council of Industrial Design and the Furniture Development Council. Draft 27 pp. final copy 26 pp. Enclosed with [PP/14/2/3/40, PP/14/2/3/43].

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/14 - Papers given to learned bodies [by Jack Pritchard]
  - PP/14/2 - Furniture Design
    - PP/14/2/3 - Changing character of furniture, Jack Pritchard U.S.A., October 1954
      - PP/14/2/3/3 - Changing Character of Furniture Factors Affecting Design

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