Jasper and his fellow students at Kingston organised a final show at the Coexistence showroom on Floral Street in Covent Garden, so that they might attract a larger audience and sell their designs. Mary Wiggin, the co-owner of Coexistence, rented the students the shop’s top floor.
Jasper showed his Handlebar Table, the Sofa (above), the Bookshelf and the Sideboard (below). He sold the Handlebar Table in an edition of ten. The buyers were the art dealer Kasmin, Jane Kasmin (the parents of his friend Paul), Lesley Waddington of Waddington Galleries, sculptor Dick Smith, George Lawson, a bookdealer at Bertram Rota, and Jasper’s parents. George Lawson’s Handlebar Table was subsequently sold to the Design Museum.
A couple in Holland Park bought the Sideboard. Jasper went to their house to install it. Jasper sees the Sideboard in the context of the Futurism/constructivism-inspired pop culture of the time: colour and sharp edges. It was technical in being held together by pulleys and string. This made it precarious and ‘tense’, as Jasper puts it. He supposes it can’t have been useful, especially not the drawers, which were made in wire mesh.
The Sofa and the Bookshelf did not sell. Jasper gave the Bookshelf to his friend Philip Gumuchdjian, then an architecture student.
