Artist and illustrator Emily Forgot collaborated with British furniture brand Very Good & Proper on this series of multimedia artworks that draw inspiration from the architecture of post-war schools.
Emily Alston, who works under the moniker Emily Forgot, created the Assembly series to mark the tenth anniversary of the London-based furniture producer Very Good & Proper.

The three wall-mounted artworks are an extension of Emily Forgot's wooden, architectural "assemblages", which she first presented at a solo show called Neverland during the 2016 London Design Festival.
Made from powder-coated aluminium and oak, the limited-edition pieces were developed collaboratively to reflect the processes, techniques and materials used to produce Very Good & Proper's furniture.
The starting point for the project was the brand's Canteen chair, which was the first product developed by Very Good & Proper cofounders Ed Carpenter and André Klauser in 2009.
The chair draws on classic post-war British school chairs, and features a powder-coated tubular steel frame combine with a plywood seat and back.

"After reading about the inspiration for the Canteen chair I did some research into postwar schools and began sketching scenes to form the basis for the work," Alston told Dezeen.

"In the end, I based the piece on an image I found in the Design Council archive from 1951 of a classroom block in Stevenage by Architect F R S Yorke."

The design was r...