Lucian Ercolani

Born in Italy in 1888, Lucian Ercolani’s family moved to London in the 1890s. There he went to night school at the Shoreditch Technical Institute where he studied drawing, design and the theory and construction of furniture.
Between 1910 to 1920, Ercolani worked in the design teams for what would later become Parker Knoll and G-Plan, before founding ercol in 1920. He designed the company’s products for many years.
In recent years ercol reintroduced Lucian’s classic designs, which now form the ercol Originals.