描述
In the late 1960s, former art-school friends Richard Loncraine and Peter Broxton formed a partnership to make sculptures and desktop toys for the burgeoning UK gift market. With a background in kinetic sculpture, concrete poetry, and the experimental art scene of 1960s London, Loncraine Broxton imbued their products with flair and inventiveness.
Their first design, Ballrace, a stylish chrome version of Newton’s cradle, became the defining executive toy of the 1970s and 1980s. It was followed by a series of memorable, playful products such as elegant kinetic sculptures, games for the home and garden, as well as items which revealed the pair’s knack for the outlandish: a giant match concealing a cigarette lighter, a double-sized deck chair, a pen disguised as a red mullet fish, address books with perfectly tailored jackets. Their liquid puzzles like the Mercury Maze with a real blob of mercury, or their Perrier and Champagne games, wittily characterise the mood of the 1980s.
