Symbolic Furniture Designs

Most furniture in The Cosmic House was designed by Charles Jencks, and like the rest of the decorative scheme, followed a strict symbolic programme. The house might be considered a built manifesto of Post-Modernism, and the furniture offered a retort to what Jencks called the ‘elegant’ but ‘banal, or at least impersonal’ furniture of mid-century Modernism. Most pieces were built from Medite (a brand of MDF board), and painted with trompe-l’oeil.