Artwork
Interior ground plans
Interior ground plans is a drawing by Robert Heritage. It dates from 1968 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
About this work
This is a 1968 sketchbook page by British designer Robert Heritage.
This is a 1968 sketchbook page by British designer Robert Heritage. It shows floor plans for one house split three ways. One layout has separate rooms. The others combine kitchen and dining spaces.
Heritage worked on furniture for Gordon Russell Ltd. He sketched these plans to plan furniture sizes. The drawing uses bold black lines and symbols to mark rooms.
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Overview
This 1968 drawing by British designer Robert Heritage presents three alternative floor plans for a single house, showcasing different room configurations.
Subject & Meaning
The plans depict a traditional layout with separate living, dining, and kitchen areas, alongside two more contemporary arrangements featuring combined kitchen-diners and lounge-diners, highlighting variations in domestic space organization.
Technique & Style
Rendered in a diagrammatic style, the drawing employs bold black lines and symbolic notation to convey the functional layout of the spaces, prioritizing clarity over visual detail.
Context
Heritage created this drawing while working on the 'GR 69' furniture range for Gordon Russell Ltd., using these plans to inform the scale and proportion of his designs.
Artist & collection
Artist
Robert Heritage liked to map spaces on paper the way architects do—except his plans were more like puzzles made of rooms and doorways.
