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Table for display of trousers Joseph Emberton
Design Books | 18.02.2013

Lost Furniture Design Classics: How to live in a Flat by W. Heath Robinson and K. R. G. Browne

If you visit the London Design Museum's new permanent collection exhibition "Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things" you will be treated to a most rare and wonderful piece of British modernist furniture, an object labelled simply: "Table for display of trousers" Created in 1936 by the English architect Joseph Emberton for Simpsons of Piccadilly, it is not only an object as unique in form as in function, but an object which brought us very much to mind of a fantastic collection of long

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