Christian Barman

[1] Christian Gustav later changed his surname to Barman, from Barmen, the small island off the coast of Norway where his father was raised.

[1] In 1934, he designed a chrome-plated metal electric fan heater for HMV, and copies are now in the permanent collections of MoMA in New York City and the V&A in London.

[2] In the 1963 New Year Honours, Barman was awarded an OBE, "For services as Executive Member, Design Panel, British Transport Commission.

"[1] He was the author of several non-fiction works including a biography of Frank Pick, The Man Who Built London Transport, and a novel Ramping Cat (1941).

[1] In 2010, TfL commissioned the Barman moquette, designed by WallaceSewell (Emma Sewell and Harriet Wallace-Jones) and manufactured by Camira Fabrics.

A Transport for London seat covering moquette in the 2011 Barman design, named after Barman, who in 1936 commissioned the first moquettes for the London Underground