N/A Hilleplan Junior Desk, 1952

Hilleplan junior desk by Robin Day, 1952.

The Hilleplan family of case furniture extended to embrace desking aswell as freestanding cabinets. The Junior desk had a single drawer pedestal in contrast to Senior with twin pedestals. The striking design employs a cantilevered top, its surface finished with inset linoleum . The stove enamelled frame is strictly minimal in construction and dimension with contrasting aluminium foot-rail. The change material indicating a functional requirement and the anticipation of wear, which would not be seen in a solid material, rather than a coated. Small details such as this and the slight chamfer to the solid mahogany edge distinguish this as a design of great quality.

The mahogany carcass also distinguished against the rosewood veneered drawer fronts. This example uses brass handles rather than the cut-out handles more widely used in the Hilleplan ranges.

The Hilleplan range was designed in 1952 and based around an 18inch module. It was Robin Day’s first storage system that reached production following his award-winning design for MOMA.

The Hilleplan range of units were designed to offer users flexibility and to work singularly, or as part of a system. It was quite different to anything else in the market at the time.

Robin Day went to design several other storage systems that anticipated the demand for flexible needs in both domestic and commercial interiors.

Dimensions:
122w x 62d x 74cmh