Charles Dillon was a British furniture designer. He and his wife,

Jane Dillon Jane Dillon , née Mary Jane Young (born 1943, Manchester, UK) is a British designer, educator and artist. She made significant contributions to furniture and Architectural lighting design across America and Europe. One of the few female internat ...

ran an international design studio between 1971 and 1982 making significant contributions to

furniture design Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating ( tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks). Furniture is also used to hold objects ...

and lighting design across America and Europe. Their studio archives are held at the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...

. File:Jobber Chairs designed by Charles & Jane Dillon, 1975.jpg, Jobber Chairs by Charles & Jane Dillon

References

* Lesley Jackson, "Modern British Furniture: Design Since 1945" V&A Museum Publishing, 2013 * Fiona MacCarthy (ed.), ''The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art'', Royal College of Art, 2012. * Deyan Sudjic, ''Terence Conran: The Way We Live Now'', Design Museum, 2011. * Giorgio Maffei, Bruno Tonini and Ettore Sottsass, ''Books by Ettore Sottsass'', Corraini Editore, 2011. * Lesley Jackson, ''The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution'', Phaidon Press, 2000. * Peter Childs and Michael Storry (eds.), ''Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture'', Routledge, 1999. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dillon, Charles British designers British furniture designers Year of birth missing 1982 deaths