Design for Penguin Donkey

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Artist/Maker	Isokon Furniture Company (manufacturer) Egon Riss (designer)
Place of origin	London (made)

Design for Penguin Donkey bookcase, Egon Riss for Isokon Furniture Company, pencil and coloured pencil on paper, London, ca. 1939

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Categories	Designs Furniture
Object type	Design
Title	Design for Penguin Donkey (generic title)
Brief description	Design for Penguin Donkey bookcase, Egon Riss for Isokon Furniture Company, pencil and coloured pencil on paper, London, ca. 1939
Dimensions	Backing paper height: 64.8cm Backing paper width: 77.1cm
Style	Modernism
Gallery label	Egon Riss and Jack Pritchard (1899-1992) Design for the Penguin Donkey bookcase British, 1939 Pen, pencil and coloured pencil Riss was a distinguished Viennese architect who fled to Britain in the late 1930s. As he did for many others, Jack Prichard helped him by providing work and accomodation in the Lawn Road Flats. The Donkey was designed as a bookcase to hold Penguin paperback books and a free advertising campaign was arranged with the publishers. The donkey was to be made of plywood by Pritchard's firm, Isokon. Unfortunately production had to be postponed because the outbreak of war prevented supplies of plywood reaching Britain from Estonia.
Associated objects	W.19:1-1993 (Object) W.19:2-1993 (Object) W.19:3-1993 (Object)
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.239-1975

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1036816/design-for-penguin-donkey-design-egon-riss/

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