Robin Day Hilleplan Desk , 1952

The Hilleplan family of case furniture extended to embrace desking as well as freestanding cabinets.

The Junior desk had a single drawer pedestal in contrast to Senior with twin pedestals. The striking design employs a cantilevered top, its surface finished with inset linoleum. The stove-enamelled frame is strictly minimal in construction and dimension with contrasting aluminium alloy foot-rail.The mahogany carcass also distinguished against the blond ash veneered drawer fronts. This example uses brass handles rather than the cut-out handles more widely used in the Hilleplan ranges.

The Hilleplan range was designed in 1952 and based around an 18inch module. It was Robin Day’s first storage system that reached production following his award-winning design for MOMA.

The Hilleplan range of units were designed to offer users flexibility and to work singularly, or as part of a system. It was quite different to anything else in the market at the time.

Robin Day went to design several other storage systems that anticipated the demand for flexible needs in both domestic and commercial interiors.

Dimensions:
122w x 62d x 74cmh