Modern Days - Brief Article

As Britain's millennium effort at the illfated Dome peters out, the Barbican Gallery remembers a conspicuous success for the scepter'd isle: the 1951 Festival of Britain, at which Robin and Lucienne Day decisively established "Contemporary" as the style of the moment. Guest curator Lesley Jackson will present the full range of the Days' activities from the '40s to the present, including Robin's furniture and graphic, exhibition, and media design and Lucienne's textiles, wallpapers, and silk mosaics.

Chances are you know Robin's furniture already: His '60s molded-polypropylene designs made for the most widely distributed chairs--ever (Feb. 8--Apr. 15).

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