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摘要

Robin Day was symbolic of the Festival of Britain where the UK eventually cast off its Edwardian mantle. But curiously enough, my early memories of Robin are actually of jealousy. While most of us were welding away in a back room making our own designs in a rather unsophisticated manner, Robin had the backing of the manufacturer Hille and his work was more refined. In so many ways he was ahead of his time and one of the first to fully use the mass-manufacturing opportunities of injection moulding. His work at the time felt iconic but has that timeless quality and still looks fantastic today.