BA3

Race Furniture

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The BA3 marks Ernest Race’s debut for Race Furniture, a testament to ingenuity and resilience in post-war Britain. Debuted at the 1946 Britain Can Make It exhibition and awarded the Gold Medal at the 1954 Milan Triennale, this chair was revolutionary—crafted from salvaged fighter‑plane aluminium and parachute silk upholstery. One of the world’s first mass‑produced chairs, over 250,000 units were made by 1964, serving troopships and public institutions. Iconic artefacts now reside in MoMA and the V A, while contemporary versions continue to grace restaurants, offices, and homes globally. Today’

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as RACE FURNITURE LIMITED, number 02454179. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
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Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
Not established. Many companies file a statement rather than naming a controlling shareholder.
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Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
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