Gavin Shinfield

I love lamp

On Jan 13 the Royal Mail issued a new set of commemerative stamps celebrating British design classics.

You can see the full set here: Royal Mail British Design Stamps

The inclusion of the Robin Day polyprop chair is genius.

I was one of those geeky kids who’s mum bought them the special First Day Covers (postcards included) and I liked it! Since then I’ve grown to love and fetishise great pieces of industrial / product design. So this is a perfect set for me.

Thanks to deezen.com for bringing this to our attention.

Tags: design, royalmail, british

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