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Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture, 1931–1940 LOQI 25cl bone china mug featuringHardcover, 360 pages By Martha Deese Inside the interwar British design store that pioneered midcentury modern plywood furniture It was simple furniture and we were makers of it. In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers (18991967) and his partner, Marjorie Butcher (190996), opened their London shop Makers of Simple Furniture. A small company, they produced made to order furniture. Until the firms closing in 1940, Makers of Simple Furniture