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PP/25/3/45 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to Marcel Breuer, 29/4/54]

Reference code
PP/25/3/45
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, Jack Pritchard to Marcel Breuer, 29/4/54]
Date/s
1954
Quantity & Format
1 leaf Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Johnson, Sigurd
Kamphoefner, Henry
Breuer, Tomas
Pritchard, Jeremy G.
Subject
Consumers Union
Consumers Research Inc.
Harvard University
University of North Carolina. State College of Agriculture and Engineering (Raleigh)
University of North Carolina. State College of Agriculture and Engineering (Raleigh). School of Design
Royal Society of Arts
Furniture Development Council
Furniture -- Standards
Lectures and lecturing
Creator
Pritchard, John Craven,
Creator
Breuer, Marcel
Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Regarding Jack Pritchard's lecture tour in the U.S.A., 1954. Discusses in detail the proposed subject of his Harvard University lecture and suggests that the Consumers' Union and the Consumers' Research Inc. might be interested in furniture performance tests and standards and the implications for designers and manufacturers. Details which aspects of the work of the Furniture Development Council he plans to discuss at a lecture he was invited to give by Professor Sigurd Johnson, Furniture Manufacturing and Management section of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. Jack Pritchard was also arranging a lecture with Henry Kamphoefner of the North Carolina State College Design School. Annotated on recto [by Jack Pritchard] sending a copy of his Royal Society of Arts paper, dated 30/4/54.

Invites Thomas [Tomas Breuer] to England and informs Marcel that Jeremy [Pritchard] will be sailing his yacht down the French coast
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