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John Makepeace

2002 Award of Distinction Recipient

Crafts­man, Educator

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.

Imakepor

Gallery of Selected Work

Maktrine
Maktrine
Makmilch
Makmilch
Makknot
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