John Makepeace
John Makepeace Furniture Ltd
John Makepeace OBE is regarded as one of the most influential furniture designers and makers in the UK. He set up Parnham College for furniture designers in 1976, and Hooke Park in 1982, an educational facility for design, workshop, construction and landscape-focused activities. A founding member of the Crafts Council UK in 1975, John was also a trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London from 1987–91. He was awarded an OBE in 1988 for his services to furniture design, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Furniture Society in 2004. In 2012, John's work was included in the UK’s Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age. John is also the proud winner of the UK’s Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2016 and more recently, the winner of the Woodland Heritage's Peter Savill Award in 2022. John's work has been commissioned by some of the world’s most distinguished corporate and private collections. As such, he welcomes meeting prospective clients by appointment to discuss future projects. "As a designer and a maker, I am constantly searching for more eloquent concepts for furniture. My objective is to achieve freer, lighter, stronger and more sculptural forms better suited to their function and more expressive of what is unique about each commission. My passion is to create masterpieces that enrich people's lives and the language of furniture."
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