Paula Day

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277 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Big Design Adventure · S3 Ep 6 - Robin and Lucienne Day · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

They died in their 90s.

I'd been, as most people with elderly parents, you know, I'd been very supportive, protective, felt a great bond with them, really, in those last years.

So to then see, you know, what I knew they'd given their life's work to being abused.

And it was a terribly difficult time because I realised that, well, my father's particularly legacy was in a very incredibly confused state.

I mean, he hadn't had a contract manager, hadn't had lawyers.

So we're sort of trying to understand what was going on, understand which companies were actually doing something in a legitimate way and cared about it and which actually weren't.

And then gradually then realizing I needed to set up an organization with the kind of core vision being that I wanted people to know what my parents had done.

You know, I didn't want that to be lost and obscured and distorted and watered down.

So I set up the Robin Lee Newsynday Foundation, and our core objective really is to educate the public, inform people, want people to know, celebrate what they did.

And also we support design education with a lot of awards.

And that is now, you know, after a lot of struggle really, now on a good footing.

And, you know, we've developed a fantastic digital archive, so it's a kind of pretty comprehensive best resource for anything about Robin Lee Newsynday.

We work with writers and exhibitions and we work with licensees on really good reissues.

Well, I mean, it's increasing all the time.

I mean, you know, new licensing relationships we're developing.

So with my father, I mean, there's been quite a few for a while.

We're actually sitting on one, which is his 675 chair, which is actually a development of his Royal Festival Hall dining chair.

But a year on from that, that's made...

He did, and apparently influenced by technology from the motor vehicle industry.

I mean, that's just how little there was available in terms of...

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