Max Clendinning was an architect and interior designer.
Clendinning is best known for his 1965 design of the "slot-together but sturdy looking" Maxima chair, inspired in part by computer lettering. This design was featured in an exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2012. He also created designs for Christian Dior and Liberty & Co and, for London Midland Region of British Railways, the laminated wooden roofs at Manchester Oxford Road railway station.
He has lived in Islington with partner Ralph Adron for forty years.