Designer · Great Britain · d. 1964
Ernest Race
Ernest Race (d. 1964) – British furniture designer, founder of Ernest Race Ltd (1945), creator of the BA3 aluminium chair and Antelope (1951).
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- d. 1964
- Country
- Great Britain
Ernest Race died on 22 January 1964. He studied at St Paul’s School, then completed a three-year interior architecture course at the Bartlett School of Architecture. In 1945, together with engineer J.W. Noel Jordan, he founded Ernest Race Ltd, which operated as Race Furniture Ltd from 1961.
His aluminium chair BA3 was shown at the Britain Can Make It exhibition in 1946, and for the Festival of Britain in 1951 he designed the Antelope and Springbok models. At the 1954 Milan Triennale, BA3 was awarded a gold medal and Antelope a silver one. In 1953 Race was awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).
Key designs
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BA3
aluminium chair, 1954 Triennale gold medal
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Antelope
Festival of Britain
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Springbok
Festival of Britain
