Loncraine Broxton: Innovations & Executive Toys 1969-1997

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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… Read more