2002 Award of Distinction Recipient
Mr. Makepeace’s award was presented June 7, 2002 by his colleague Chris Rose, teacher at the John Makepeace School for Furniture at Parnham House, Dorset, England from 1984 – 1988.
Gallery of Selected Work
Maktrine
Makmilch
Makknot
John Makepeace was born in 1939 Solihull, Warwickshire, UK
Education
- 1957 – 1960 City and Guilds Diploma in Craft Education
- 1957 – 1959 Trained in cabinet making with Keith Cooper
- 1952 – 1957 Denstone College, Staffordshire
Awards and Memberships
- 1999 Master’s Award, Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers
- 1997 Claxton Stevens Prize for the most outstanding piece of furniture, 1996 – 1997
- 1988 OBE for services to furniture design
- 1972 Winner of the Observer Kitchen Design Competition, The Observer
- Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers (Fellow)
- Fellow of the Institute of Management (Fellow)
- Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts
Publications
- Betty Norbury. Furniture for the 21st Century. Stobart Davies.
- Fiona and Keith Baker, Twentieth Century Furniture, Carlton 2000
- Charlotte & Peter Fiell, Design of the Twentieth Century, Taschen 1999
- Jeremy Myerson, Makepeace: Spirit of Adventure in Craft and Design, Conran Octopus 1995
- The Best of British Men, The Best of British Publications, 1993
- Betty Norbury, British Craftsmanship in Wood, Stobart Davies 1990
- Christopher Payne, Sothedby’s Concise Encyclopaedia of Furniture 1989
- Aidan Walker (General Editor) Encyclopaedia of Wood 1989
Recent Exhibitions
- 2001 — “Sextet”, Finelot Gallery, London.
- 2001- SOFA, Chicago
- 2001 — House and Garden/Daily Telegraph, London
- 2000- Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s London
- 2000- Creative Britain, Berlin
- 2000- Prime Gallery, Toronto
- 1999- Twentieth Century Design Show, Olympia
- 1999- “Decadence” The Crafts Council
Collections
- Art Institute, Chicago
- Banque Generale du Luxembourg
- Boots Pic
- British Insurance Brokers Association, London
- City Art Gallery, Birmingham
- City Art Gallery, Cardiff
- City Art Gallery, Leeds
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
- Grosvenor Estates
- Leeds City and Gallery
- Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
- Nuffield Foundation
- Portals pic (now De La Rue pic)
- Reed International
- Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
- Sidney and Frances Lewis collection, Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington
- Templeton College and Keble College, Oxford
- The Post Office
- The Worshipful Company of Innholders, London
- Victoria and Albert Museum