page_title: Utility furniture
section_title: The Utility Furniture Advisory Committee
hierarchical_section_title: Utility furniture / The Utility Furniture Advisory Committee
caption_attribution_description: English: Utility Clothing and Utility Furniture mark. Known as the "Cheeses" logo, stamped on all fabrics and furniture, designed by Reginald Shipp. Molto Italian Futurist influences.
context_page_description: Utility furniture was furniture produced in the United Kingdom during and directly after World War II. The furniture was produced under a Government scheme which was designed to cope with raw material shortages and rationing of their usage. Introduced in 1942, the Utility Furniture Scheme continued into post-war austerity and lasted until 1952.
context_section_description: The Utility Furniture Advisory Committee was set up in 1942 in order to assure that the available resources were used efficiently. It drew on expertise from Gordon Russell, Edwin Clinch, Herman Lebus and John Gloag. Among the committee's other members was Charles Jenkinson, a Leeds vicar and social reformer.
  New furniture was rationed and was restricted to newlyweds and people who had been bombed, under the "Domestic Furniture (Control of Manufacture and Supply (No 2)) Order 1942" operative from 1 November 1942.
  The same logo was used for Utility Furniture as for the Utility clothing scheme: two capital 'C's and the figure 41, for "Controlled Commodity 1941" (which soon became known as "The Two Cheeses").
caption: The CC41 mark.
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