twentytwentyone

Twentytwentyone is a respected design retail company set up by Simon Alderson and Tony Cunningham in 1996. As well as acting as exclusive agents for international design companies, twentytwentyone produces its own collection of furniture and accessories including the Robin Day Collection made under licence from the Foundation.

Robin Day first collaborated with twentytwentyone in 1999 when he contributed a design to the Childsply charity project. He went on to design the Avian family of seating, reflecting ideas inherent in his 1951 Royal Festival Hall Lounge Chair. In 2006 Lucienne Day worked with twentytwentyone to develop new productions of four of her midcentury tea towel designs.

In 2012 twentytwentyone launched a new production of Robin Day's Reclining Chair (1952), which won Wallpaper magazine's Design Award for Best Reissue. 

In September 2014 twentytwentyone curated and hosted At Home with the Days, an online charity auction of items from the Days' own homes. All proceeds went directly to the Foundation to help fund the new Robin and Lucienne Day Digital Archive.

twentytwentyone celebrated the 100th anniversary of Robin Day's birth in 2015 with a Centenary Edition of his Reclining Chair, with upholstery selected by ten of the country's leading designers.

In 2017 twentytwentyone launched a new production of Robin Day's Slatted Bench (1954). The company celebrated Lucienne Day's centenary with Day for Flowers, an exhibition of floral displays by leading figures in the design world using a new Limited Edition of Lucienne Day's 1966 designs for Flower Bricks.

As part of their 25th anniversary celebrations in 2021, twentytwentyone has launched three new Robin Day products: a special edition of the Reclining Chair with walnut armrests and a richly textural heritage Mourne Textiles weave, a limited edition of the Transparent Table created by Robin Day in the early 1960s as a one-off piece for the family's living room, and the first-ever new production of his Chevron Chair (1959).

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Photography: Mark Whitfield, © twentytwentyone 

Chevron Chair



First production
Hille 1959


Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2021

Batterie de Cuisine

First production,
Thomas Somerset


Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2006

Transparent Table

One-off production
Robin Day, early 1960s


Licensed production
twentytwentyone 2021

Avian AV2

First production,
twentytwentyone 2000

Tricorne Tray

First production,
Hille 1950s


Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2000

Black Leaf

First production
Thomas Somerset 1959

Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2021

Night and Day

First production,
Thomas Somerset 1961–62


Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2006

Slatted Bench

First production
Hille 1954


Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2017

Avian AV1

First production,
twentytwentyone 2000

Reclining Chair

First production,
Hille 1952


Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2012

Too Many Cooks

First production,
Thomas Somerset 1959

Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2006

Chevron Chair


First production
Hille 1959

Licensed new production
twentytwentyone 2021