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Acton, Hugh [-. USA. Furniture Designer/Sculptor]
Acton, Hugh [-. USA. Furniture Designer/Sculptor]
Hugh Acton was born in c.1926 and grew up in Nebraska. During World War Two he served in the Merchant Marine. Following the war he studied at Grinnell College in Iowa from where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. After serving for three years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Acton attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hill, Michigan, from where he received a master’s degree in design in 1955. He then worked briefly in the Technical Center of General Motors in Detroit before embarking on a career as a furniture designer in Michigan. He also established companies to manufacture his designs. Among his most successful pieces were the Suspended Beam Bench, designed in 1954 while he was a student at Cranbrook; his Modular Storage System of 1957, which won the American Institute of Design award that year; a wall-hung closet with moveable aluminium (aluminum) panels he designed for Reynolds Metals in 1959, for which he received an Association of Business Design award; the Acton Stacker chair in steel and polypropylene of 1973; and the C Series office chair for Domore Furniture. In 1968 Acton sold his furniture companies to the Brunswick Corp., however he continued to design furniture. In addition to his work as a furniture designer, Acton has also created sculpture and jewellery.
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