London Design Festival 09: new British design and production company Very Good & Proper launched their first collection at The Dock in London last month.
Called Canteen, the collection includes a chair, table and coat hook.
The pressed beech plywood seat of the chair is supported by a powder-coated steel frame.
The aluminium table legs attach directly to the underside of the top and are also supplied separately for use with an existing or found top.
A powder-coated plate behind the knob of the coat hook forms a secondary hook and protects the wall behind from scratches.
Very Good & Proper is a collaboration between London designers Klauser & Carpenter and restaurateur Patrick Clayton-Malone.
The Canteen collection was originally designed Canteen restaurant in Baker Street, London, co-founded by Clayton-Malone.
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VERY GOOD AND PROPER
'Measure twice, cut once'
Very Good & Proper is a collaboration between Canteen co-founder Patrick Clayton-Malone and design duo Klauser & Carpenter; set up to produce well designed, practical, reasonable priced products originated by emerging and recognised design talent with longevity in mind.
The exhibition will see official launch of VG&P, featuring the Canteen Table, Canteen Hook & Knob and the Canteen Utility Chair.
PRODUCT 001 'CANTEEN' TABLE
A commercially feasible table with design integrity suitable for residential or commercial applications. The tabletop is available in a range of sizes in beech plywood.
PRODUCT 001A 'CANTEEN' TABLE LEG SET
Ready to attach to any tabletop or even old door. Available in boxed sets of four in a range of snazzy colours. Gravity cast aluminium leg fixes directly to the tabletop eliminating the need for a bracing system.
PRODUCT 002 'CANTEEN' HOOK & KNOB
Canteen hook and knob. The powder coated steel backplate and hook protects the wall from dirt and scratches, covering any unsightly fixing marks; the knob, large, round and simple to locate.
PRODUCT 003 'CANTEEN' UTILITY CHAIR
Inspired by the ubiquitous post war school chair. Powder coated steel frame married to a pressed beech plywood seat and back. Lightweight and stackable.
Well done chaps. Like the affordance of the back of the chair – lots of pulling and pushing in a restaurant – and nice considerations encapsulated in a simple solution for the coat hook.
All in all, very good (and proper).
excellent work. superb.
Love this collection. The colours are fantastic, the design is great. The hook is also very cleverly designed.
nostalgic. there were chairs and desks in similar structure in schools in Japan. brilliant modification.
I like these a lot.
Complete and utter THUMBS UP!
That is just brilliant. Hook is really very very beautiful indeed. Leg seems great designed too !
i cannot put into words how much i love these designs, i think i may quit design because they have just done it the best… i hate you, i love you, i hate you….
Of course, the designers might reference PEL chairs?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kece5YAgHjE/SiwcNZlHNsI/AAAAAAAAA10/oisWCYQlVTA/s1600-h/tubularchairs.jpg
thank goodness. after all the useless rubbish craft being churned out by the people in holland it is good to see a sober real stream of designers emerging from england. At last people are coming around. let it continue.
toodles
There is always something intelligently witty about British design. I am always amazed by the huge abyss standing between the design junk out of continental EU and such fun Brit stuff. (I’m not British btw.) Well done!
The chairs are really nice. And I think they will compliment each type of canteen.
simple and good