Hammer Prints represents an important moment in avant-garde postwar British design that combined mass produced imagery with bespoke one-off designs. The work is extremely rare.
In 1954 artists Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi formed a creative partnership under the company name of Hammer Prints Limited. Over the course of the next seven years, the two artists established a commercial venture, collaboratively designing patterns and working with industry specialists to produce wallpapers, fabrics, ceramic tiles, furniture and tableware using their designs.