KATE LENNARD

 

 

Biography:

British author Kate Lennard is 38 and lives in Crouch End with Interior design guru Mark Garside and their two boys Zoom and Ace.
Kate likes to do the school run on roller skates and is an avid collector of 20th century ephemera including:
01 - SWEETS AND CHOCOLATE WRAPPERS [from 1972 - 1979]
02 - POCKETEERS
03 - LADYBIRD BOOKS [with matt covers]
04 - SINCLAIR CALCULATORS
05 - MATTEL TALK -UP DOLLS [1971]
06 - LYONS MAID LOLLIPOP SLEEVES [from 1973 – 1981]

 

Background:

3D Design graduate Lennard famously made a chair out of 1102 Bic razors, and a cult doll clock entitled ‘Riding Time’ (bought by Jean-Paul Gaultier and Michael Hutchence amongst others), a special version of which was commissioned by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum for their Street Style exhibition.  She continued to design such products as ‘The Glamp’, a doll with a light bulb head, which was dressed by fashion designers from Eley Kishimoto to Hysteric Glamour, through the 90s.

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