David Booth
Trained as an Architect, joining the Gordon Russell design team in the early thirties.
He left the firm in the mid thirties in order to set up his own practice in partnership with Judith Ledeboer (check spelling). The partnership achieved great success, and became recognised as being in the forefront of design.
In the immediate post war years he designed the sideboard displayed in the Museum.
Working within the restriction on the use of materials under the Utility Furniture programme, but with freedom of design, he hit upon the idea of forming decoration to the door fronts by cutting through the face veneer to expose the base material.
After years of control, the resulting decorative door fronts to the sideboard were hugely successful with retailers of that time. The piece remains to this day highly collectable for people with an interest in the period.
He left the firm in the mid thirties in order to set up his own practice in partnership with Judith Ledeboer (check spelling). The partnership achieved great success, and became recognised as being in the forefront of design.
In the immediate post war years he designed the sideboard displayed in the Museum.
Working within the restriction on the use of materials under the Utility Furniture programme, but with freedom of design, he hit upon the idea of forming decoration to the door fronts by cutting through the face veneer to expose the base material.
After years of control, the resulting decorative door fronts to the sideboard were hugely successful with retailers of that time. The piece remains to this day highly collectable for people with an interest in the period.