Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture 1931-1940 fashion removing the best pieces while

removing the best pieces while not wasting anything

surveying a succession of clean desks and messy desks

Kracauer published numerous critiques with a special focus on the architectural developments of the time

Dixit Algorizmi is an ongoing series of exhibitions

Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture 1931-1940 fashion removing the best pieces whileIn 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers (18991967) and his partner, Marjorie Butcher (190996), opened their London shop Makers of Simple Furniture. A small company, they produced made to order furniture in limited quantities. Until the firms closing in 1940, Makers of Simple Furniture produced hundreds of ingenious furniture designs in plywood. Conceived, in Summers words, as furniture for the concrete age, this singular body of work shaped the