“It is testament to the influence of Charlotte and Peter Fiell on our collective awareness of design that, on entering their west London workspace, I am able to make a quick, envious inventory of their furniture. The shelves, stuffed floor to ceiling with hefty tomes on art and design, are by Dieter Rams; the sleek office chairs from Vitra. Admittedly, it is more of a struggle to name the man behind the sculptural low seats in zingy colours on which we station ourselves for tea (the late Pierre Paulin, Charlotte tells me later), but I recognise them, and – perhaps more importantly – I recognise them as being exemplary of good late-20th-century design. Not bad for someone without specialist knowledge or the means to do more than contemplate such pieces wistfully on the shop floor at cult furniture store SCP…”
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