Jane Dillon
Jane Dillon FRSA, née Mary Jane Young (born 1943, Manchester, UK) is a British designer, educator and artist. She made significant contributions to furniture and Architectural lighting design across America and Europe.[1][2] One of the few female international designers of her generation, Dillon's work encompassed contract and domestic furniture, lighting, textiles and glassware.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Dillon was a pupil at Adcote School in Shropshire. She studied interior design at Manchester College of Art between 1961 and 1965, and subsequently in 1968, completed a Master's degree in furniture design at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London.[3]
Between 1968 and 1971, Dillon worked at Olivetti in Milan under Ettore Sottsass. She later founded her own studio, Charles and Jane Dillon Associates, in London.[4]
For over 30 years, Dillon taught design at the RCA and was made an Honorary Fellow in 2007. Her complete studio archives are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.[1]
References
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- 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.
- Charlotte & Peter Fiell, ‘Multipla by Jane Dillon and Peter Wheeler’ in 1000 CHAIRS, Taschen, 1997. pp. 661.
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