Charles Dillon was a British furniture designer. He and his wife, Jane Dillon ran an international design studio between 1971 and 1982 making significant contributions to

furniture design Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, eating and/or working with an item, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks). Fur ...

and

lighting design In theatre, a lighting designer (or LD) works with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create the lighting, atmosphere, and time of day for the production in response to the text while keeping in ...

across America and Europe. Their studio archives are held at the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

. File:Jobber Chairs designed by Charles & Jane Dillon, 1975.jpg, Jobber Chairs by Charles & Jane Dillon

References

* Lesley Jackson, "Modern British Furniture: Design Since 1945" V&A Museum Publishing, 2013 * Fiona MacCarthy (ed.), ''The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art'', Royal College of Art, 2012. * Deyan Sudjic, ''Terence Conran: The Way We Live Now'', Design Museum, 2011. * Giorgio Maffei, Bruno Tonini and Ettore Sottsass, ''Books by Ettore Sottsass'', Corraini Editore, 2011. * Lesley Jackson, ''The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution'', Phaidon Press, 2000. * Peter Childs and Michael Storry (eds.), ''Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture'', Routledge, 1999. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dillon, Charles British designers British furniture designers Year of birth missing 1982 deaths