Furniture design discussed at seminar in Dublin.
JC Pritchard OBE, Director and Secretary of the Furniture Development Council and the Furniture Industry Research Association in London will give the opening address at a three day furniture making seminar.
The event is organised by the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards and takes place at the Industrial Research Centre at the Ballymun Road, Dublin.
JC Pritchard believes that a more inclusive approach to furniture design benefits everyone,
If you made your chairs more for women, they would be both comfortable for women, and probably for men.
The standards of modern design have JC Pritchard is an admirer of both contemporary furniture and Irish furniture from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Experts in the furniture world are in agreement that Denmark is now the leading country for furniture design. Factories in Denmark are organised differently to those in Britain as,
They use their machines for accuracy, not so much for saving labour.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 4 June 1962. The reporter is Anne Binchy.
