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Competition: five copies of Modern British Furniture to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the V&A Shop to give readers the chance to win a copy of a book about British furniture design since 1945.
Congratulations to the winners! Małgosia Błauciak from Poland, Lucila Matteo from Argentina, Emily Freyer from the USA, David Mitchell from the UK and Thomas Froment from France all won a copy of Modern British Furniture.
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Modern British Furniture: Design since 1945 by London author and curator Lesley Jackson was recently released by the publishing branch of London's V&A.
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The book explores the work of over fifty British designers from the end of the Second World War to the present day.
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It includes work by post-war pioneers such as Ernest Race, Robin Day and Robert Heritage to today's internationally-renowned designers like Tom Dixon, Ron Arad and Jasper Morrison.
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Products by iconic furniture brands Ercol and Heal's feature alongside designs from contemporary companies Established & Sons and SCP.
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Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners' names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
Here's some more text from the publishers:
V&A Shop is giving five lucky Dezeen readers the chance to win a copy of V&A Publishing's Modern British Furniture: Design since 1945 by Lesley Jackson.
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Focusing on design ingenuity, this book explores the work of the most inventive British designers from 1945 to the present - from early post-war pioneers such as Ernest Race, Robin Day and Robert Heritage, to iconoclastic figures from the Pop era such as Peter Murdoch, William Plunkett and Max Clendinning, to today's global superstars led by Tom Dixon, Ron Arad and Jasper Morrison.
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Exploring the free-spirited and resourceful character of British design, this is a story of dynamic entrepreneurs who have spearheaded their own companies, such as Lucian Ercolani at Ercol, Terence Conran at Habitat and Rodney Kinsman at OMK, and the creative alliances between impassioned individuals and enlightened manufacturers, such as John and Sylvia Reid at Stag and Bernard Holdaway at Hull Traders.
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The contemporary scene is fluid and dynamic, with top designers such as Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby collaborating with leading British and international companies, and talented foreign-born designers such as El Ultimo Grito and Tomoko Azumi injecting further variety and spice into the British furniture design scene.
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From legendary household names such as Ercol and Heal's to contemporary innovators such as Established & Sons and SCP, this book highlights the achievements of more than 50 outstanding designers and companies from 1945 to the present.