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Dining Room

Design
1968 (made)
Artist/Maker
Clendinning, Max (Designer)
Ralph Adron (Artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Design for a dining room, decorated in pink with curved lines flowing into integrated shelves, and curved chairs around a central dining table.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Interiors
Object type
Design
TitleDining Room (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Poster colour and collage on paper
Poster Colour
Collage
Brief description
Dining room design by Max Clendinning, drawn by Ralph Adron, one of six designs for interiors commissioned by the Daily Telegraph for the colour supplement article 'Take a Room', 1968
Physical description
Design for a dining room, decorated in pink with curved lines flowing into integrated shelves, and curved chairs around a central dining table.
Dimensions
  • Height: 232mm
  • Width: 485mm (Note: taken from catalogue)
Style
Pop
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • [date] March 8/68
  • Ralph Adron (stamped)
  • Telegraph 185. P.45. Size as Tracing. No (3). (in crayon)
Object history
Max Clendinning was one of four designers (the others were Oliver Gregory, Jon Bannenberg and Peter Gynn) who were each asked by the Daily Telegraph to create interiors for the rooms of an old house in their own particular style, for the colour supplement article 'Take a Room', 1968. Clendinning treated each room as an architectural shell and attempted to eliminate visual clutter by the use of single colour schemes and unified storage systems. The flowing geometry of his style is reflected in the drawings which were made by Ralph Adron.
Subjects depicted
Dining Table
Dining Chairs
Association
Daily Telegraph
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.826-1979

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O552417/dining-room-design-clendinning-max/
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