Robin day side table by Habitat in white lacquered metal and Vintage wood

Side table in white lacquered metal and melamine and white ceramic. Design by Robin Day for Habitat. The melamine wood top is reversible, there is a light wood side and a darker wood side. In superb condition. Some signs of wear are visible in the photos. Robin Day. He and his wife Lucienne designed many pieces of furniture that were particularly brilliant for their innovative dimension. During the 1950s, they overturned the traditional and bourgeois vision of furniture by focusing on functionality. From this new approach were born legendary pieces such as the Polyprop chair (1962-1963) and the Hillestack stackable chair (1950). Biography Robin Day was born in 1915 in England. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. In 1948, he founded their own design office with his wife. In 1949, he took part in the low-cost furniture competition organized by the Moma in New York and won first place. In 1950, he was appointed design director of Hille International. His work was part of a post-war context. As a result, Day was keen to design economical and practical furniture that could therefore fit into small spaces. Technical research was at the heart of his concerns, as shown by the Polyprop chair designed using injection molding. Robin Day is one of the great figures of design, as he was able to shake up its codes.