Designer · United Kingdom · 1915–2010
Robin Day
Robin Day (1915–2010) – British furniture designer, creator of the Polypropylene Chair for Hille (1963), produced in approx. 64 million units.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1915–2010
- Country
- United Kingdom
Robin Day was born on 25 May 1915 in High Wycombe and died on 9 November 2010. From 1931, he studied at High Wycombe School of Art, and from 1934 to 1938 at the Royal College of Art. In 1948, together with Clive Latimer, he won first prize in the MoMA competition for low-cost furniture for his design of storage furniture, whose prototypes were made in 1949 by Heal & Son.
He was most closely associated with Hille, for which he designed, among others, Hillestak (1951), a reclining armchair (1952), Q Stak (1954) and the Polypropylene Chair (1963) – produced in approximately 64 million units by 2019. He also designed seating for the Royal Festival Hall (1951), radios and televisions for Pye from around 1948 to 1965, and worked for the Barbican in 1981.
In 1959, he was appointed Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), and in 1983 received the Order of the British Empire (OBE). His work was presented in exhibitions at the Barbican (2001) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (2012, 2015).
Key designs
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Hillestak
chair
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Q Stak
chair
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Polypropylene Chair
polypropylene chair
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Royal Festival Hall seating
auditorium armchairs
