Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture 1931-1940 ethics and the myriad ways we

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Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture 1931-1940 ethics and the myriad ways weIn 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