Martha Deese

Inside the interwar British design store that pioneered midcentury modern plywood furniture "It was simple furniture ... and we were makers of it." In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers (1899–1967) and his partner, Marjorie Butcher (1909–96), opened their London shop Makers of Simple Furniture. A small company, they produced made-to-order furniture. Until the firm’s closing in 1940, Makers of...