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Gerald Summers, The Simple Heart of Plywood
Publication
1934, London, 2018
Softback, 40 pp., 265 × 180 mm

Gerald Summers, The Simple Heart of Plywood presents a selection of pieces designed by British furniture maker Gerald Summers. His small workshop, based in West London, Makers of Simple Furniture operated for less than 10 years from 1931 up until the outbreak of WWII. The company went bankrupt as the import of Estonian birch plywood became restricted. Summers' work was based on the sole potential of plywood, and his designs ranged from hand-cut dove-tail jointed, flat sheet rectangular cabinets to almost-free formed armchairs using a single piece of plywood; small desk tidies to full scale interior projects. The book is designed using a range of paper stocks with different colours and finishes.