English furniture : technique and design

Overview

Television broadcast 17 analyses the structures and the processes of production in wood and steel furniture around 1930-34, concentrating on the work of Heal and Son and Pel Limited. It investigates the introduction of tubular steel furniture to Britain from Germany and France, and questions Charlotte Perriand’s defence of tubular steel as a material of mass production and superior technological properties, as published in The Studio in 1929.