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Mr. Robin Day, OBE, and a Fellow of the British Royal Chartered Society of Designers, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England in 1915. Along with his wife, Lucienne Day (a renowned British textile designer) he created modern pieces of furniture that helped Britain get into the mid-century modernist craze. High Wycombe was already famous as a furniture-production town many decades befor …

Continuing our examination of the latest and most important trends in furniture for 2019, we’re back with two trends that will definitely shape most living spaces around the country. There are a lot of trends that we can identify and make use of in 2019, but we have reduced that number to four, as we explained on part one, so you can have a better understanding of what to get. Here are the …

A new home means new beginnings, new friends, new furniture, and probably a new dining set. However, not every dining set is created equal, even if most of them do tend to look the same. At Manhattan Home Design we want for you to get the perfect dining set, not the prettiest or most affordable. Here’s a handy two-point guide on what to look for on a dining set to make sure it’s the r …

It’s been a while since we talked about a designer that wasn’t entirely American or European. The mid-century modernist movement spanned the entire world in many different ways, as we have mentioned before. In Australia, particularly, there were a lot of furniture designers and architects that adhered to mid-century trends and breakthroughs, even though most of them are now almost unk …