Dimitri Petrohilos, Adeptus seating ref or info  

info on Dimitri Petrohilos
Adeptus marketed foam furniture in mid-1970's
Billy White owned the company
Dimitri was their designer
A firm named the Sherwood Corporation, in Spring City, TN was in the same market: foam furniture
We designed the first styles for Sherwood starting in 1975, continuing through 1983.
It was an exciting time for us, as the products were clean design at a mass market price. Carried by the likes of Bloomingdales, Macy's, Workbench, Conran's, Crate and Barrel, etc., as well as Sears and Montgomery Ward.
This was part of the "lifestyles" period which was promoted by many shelter magazines from Apartment Life, which soon became Metropolitan Home, to House & Garden.
If it is foam furniture, or LIFESTYLE furniture which brought you to search Adeptus, we would be pleased to communicate with you.
It would also interest us to see where Dimitri/Adeptus/White went to compared to our history over these past 35+ years.
Robert Tiffany, Tiffany and Tiffany, Designers, Inc 215 297 0550

I remember going to work with my father in the late sixties to his workshop and showroom at 40 chalcott road in London. At the time he was making furniture out of baltic birch plywood painted in bright colors. He was also making furniture out of foam covered in fabrics. the first chair I remember was called jigsaw because one chair inverted on another made a cube with no empty spaces. The next chair was Contour, a slightly refined version of the first design, taller, more angles. next came the bedsit range which was the first of his sofas and chairs that folded out into beds. I also remember that he stole his wife's electric carving knife to carve one off designs out of large blocks of foam.. In Britain his company was called ADEPTUS but in the early eighties became estia designs with a showroom on tottenham street in the west end of London. Meanwhile he started a company in the USA also called adeptus which he operated with Billy White. Billy could sell sand to a dead arab and my father could come up with fresh designs constantly and during these years they enjoyed considerable commercial success. The real innovation was not that they made sofas that transformed into beds but that they did it without any structure or springs or framework. This was the breakthrough and deserves it's place in design history. i have photos of many of his early designs if anyone is interested.