This session of the The Furniture History Society’s 45th Annual Symposium: Design 1900-Now was an interview I conducted with furniture designer Huren Marsh. The conversation covered Marsh’s experiences as a Jamaican designer who studied and works in England, British design education in the 1980s, and Marsh’s work as a designer, curator and educator, past and present.

The conference was staged on the occasion of the opening of the new ‘Design 1900-Now’ galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), which include Huren Marsh’s Akuaba chair (1985). Emily Candela conducted early foundational research for the new galleries in 2016.