It was designed in 1939 by Jack Pritchard and Egon ... the Donkey inside the books, which was then renamed the Penguin Donkey. 1939 turned out to be a bad year to design an iconic piece of furniture.

The iconic Isokon Penguin Donkey, a 1930s free-standing bookshelf developed with the publisher, has been updated for the third time in its history by Shin and Tomoko Azumi. The original product was ...

This to me is a marmite product – you either love the Isokon Penguin Donkey or find it just a little ... Lane commissioned designer Egon Riss at Isokon to make a modern bookshelf, a piece ...