Design for a dressing table in the 'A' range, Anonymous designer, drawn for the Stag Cabinet Co., 1955 or earlier

Design for a dressing table, with curved front, recessed top, mirror with rounded top and corners - painted in brown against a yellow background.

For the many customers of the 1950s who craved the monumentality of pre-war furniture, the Stag Cabinet Co. designed its 'A' range of bedroom furniture, a set 'of interchangeable pieces from which you may select those most suited to your own particular needs and be assured that each piece will blend happily with its neighbour'. Its curved forms being softened and lightened version of the Moderne style of the 1930s. Clear post-war touches are the handles and the characteristically 1950s shape of the mirror. When the 'A' range was finally launched in 1955 this design, with its daringly 'streamlined' recessed top, was not adopted and nor were the handles.

[Michael Snodin, 'British Design at Home', p.167]

E.108-1978