METROCS
METROCS is a furniture brand established in Japan in 2002, passing masterpiece design items to future generations. Collaborated with designers and their foundations, we revive and commercialize historical design products. Our mission is to discover buried “truly high-quality product”, and pass its ingenuity, sincerity and stories hidden in the materials, parts and construction method, down in perpetuity.
Robin Day [1915-2010]
Born in Buckinghamshire, England. Robin Day graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1939. In 1948 he won first Prize for a jointly designed low-cost storage unit in the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design held by MoMA. Subsequently undertaking numerous furniture designs, in 1963 he designed the world’s first Polypropylene Chair, using injection-moulding technology to enable mass-production. His Poly chair became an international smash hit, with over 14 million sold since production began. Robin Day and his wife, textile designer Lucienne Day, are celebrated for bringing popular modern design to Britain.