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Zandra Rhodes (b.1940) British fashion and textile designer

On: September 27, 2022

Tagged: british, british - interior design, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Fashion, fashion designer

Zandra Rhodes studied lithography and printing at Medway College before going on to the Royal College of Art to study textiles, graduating in 1964 during the height of the pop movement. She made a paper wedding dress that cost less than two shillings, motivated by this trend and the work of painter Roy Lichtenstein in particular (about 7 new pence). In 1967, paper clothing was all the rage: it was the ultimate representation of disposable apparel.Read More →

Susie Cooper (1902 – 1995) British ceramicist and designer

On: September 26, 2022

Tagged: britain, british, British - Ceramics, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, ceramics - british, paris, pottery, work

Breakfast in an American middle-class home in the 1940s was often served on dishes designed by English designer Susie Cooper (1902-1995).Read More →

David Mellor (1930 – 2009) British metalworker and manufacturer

On: September 21, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Design, designer

Mellor specialised in metalwork, especially cutlery, and was regarded as one of Britain’s most well-known designers. He also built bus shelters and the traffic light system that is currently in operation throughout the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories.Read More →

Royal Designer for Industry – high quality industrial design

On: August 19, 2022

Tagged: british, british - industrial design, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, design association, design group

The British Royal Society of Arts (RSA) established the Royal Designer for Industry designation in 1936 to encourage high-quality industrial design and elevate the reputation of designers. It is given to persons who have demonstrated “consistent excellence in beautiful and efficient industrial design.”Read More →

William Blenko (1854 – 1926) and Blenko Glassware

On: August 17, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, glass, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer

Blenko established the first American factory to produce sheet glass for stained glass windows. Blenko’s early successes include providing glass for St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The White House has a collection of Blenko table ware, used periodically. Wayne Husted pioneered the concept of “architectural scale” designs. Blenko’s “Historic Period” begins with Anderson in 1946 and includes work of Nickerson up to 1974.Read More →

Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) British wood engraver & ceramicist

On: August 17, 2022

Tagged: artist, british, British - Ceramics, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, ceramics - british

Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II. Ravilious studied with Edward Bawden and Charles Mahoney at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in 1928. He painted a series of marionette-like murals for Morley College, which were destroyed by bombing in 1941.Read More →

Laura Ashley (1926 – 1988) British fabric and fashion designer

On: August 17, 2022

Tagged: A, british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, fabric, fabric designer, fabrics, textile, textile designer

Laura Ashley was one of the first British designers to experiment with the concept of lifestyle marketing. Her romantic vision of nineteenth-century rural life, adapted to modern domestic realities, inspired a generation of middle-class Britons who returned to country life in the 1960s and 1970s.Read More →

Minnie Macleish (1876 – 1957 ) British textile designer

On: August 17, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, fabric, fabric designer, fabrics, textile - british, textile designer

She collaborated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Constance Irving at London’s Foxton textiles and Amsterdam’s Metz store. Macleish was a prolific designer during the 1920s and 1930s, creating patterns for Morton Sundour fabrics.Read More →

Nigel Coates (b.1949) English architect and designer

On: August 17, 2022

Tagged: architect, architects, architecture, britain, british, british - industrial design, british - interior design, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧

He co-founded Branson Coates Architecture with Doug Branson in 1985 before opening his architecture and design studio in 2006. He was a partner in the Branson Coates architecture and design studio and the founder of the radical NATO (Narrative Architecture Today, established in London in 1983) design group (established in 1985).Read More →

Walter Crane (1845 – 1915) British designer, artist and writer

On: August 16, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, illustrator, illustrators

Walter Crane (1845 – 1915) was a British designer, artist and writer. He designed textiles, stained glass, wallpaper, and ceramics as a strong proponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His books were available in both original and pirated copies in the U.S. Crane designed stained glass, tiles, wallpapers, embroideries, textiles, mosaics and decorative plasterwork.Read More →

Dame Mary Quant (b.1934) British Fashion Designer

On: August 14, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Fashion, fashion designer, female designer

Mary Quant, a pivotal figure in British fashion design, studied art and design at Goldsmiths College of Art from 1952 to 1955 while also taking evening classes in clothing construction and cutting. In 1955, in Knightsbridge, London, she established her first shop Bazaar on King’s Road, followed by the second shop Terence Conran designed in Knightsbridge.Read More →

Jasper Morrison (b.1959) British Designer quirky, understated furniture

On: August 12, 2022

Tagged: british, British Designers 🇬🇧, British Furniture, chair, Design, exhibition, Exhibitions, furniture, furniture designer, Industrial Designer

Morrison produced quirky, satiric, understated furniture. His 1986 South Kensington flat was widely published in design magazines. He designed 1988 Door handles I and II, and a 1989 range of aluminium handles produced by FSB in Germany. Read More →

George Sowden – British/Italian Designer

On: August 11, 2022

Tagged: british, British Designers 🇬🇧, furniture, furniture designer, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, Memphis

George James Sowden is a British designer. He was born in Leeds and active Italy. Between 1960-64 and 1966-68, he studied architecture, Gloucester College of Arts. Read More →

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Christian Barman (1898–1980) British industrial designer

On: August 7, 2022

Tagged: british, british - industrial design, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, Industrial Designer

Christian Barman was a key first-generation British industrial designer during the interwar years. He is best known for his 1936 electric iron for HMV, which he started designing in 1933. He studied architecture at Liverpool University and ran his practice until Frank Pick invited him to join London Transport as a Publicity Officer in 1935.Read More →

Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) influential 🇬🇧 textile designer

On: July 26, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, textile, textile - british, textile designer

Lucienne Day was one of the most influential post-war British textile designers. She developed a unique style of pattern making. READ MORERead More →

Jaeger 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 clothes are not just fashion but function & lifestyle

On: July 24, 2022

Tagged: 1920s, 1930s, british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧

During the twentieth century, a movement arose that advocated for clothing to be worn as part of a sensible, healthy lifestyle rather than only for fashion. These concepts sprang from the work of nineteenth-century fashion reformers, in the same way, that English writer Edward Carpenter popularised the open-toed leather sandal for men. Read More →

Geoffrey Harcourt (b.1935) British Furniture Designer

On: July 21, 2022

Tagged: british, british - industrial design, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, British Furniture

Between 1960-61, he worked at Latham, Tyler and Jensen, Chicago, and with Jacob Jensen in Copenhagen; in 1961, opened his studio in London, specialising in furniture design; from 1962; began designing seating for Artifort, the Netherlands, who produced more than 20 models of his furniture designsRead More →

Moorcroft British (ca. 1913) art pottery manufacturer

On: July 20, 2022

Tagged: british, British - Ceramics, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramics - british, design manufacturer, potter, potters, pottery

William Moorcroft started Moorcroft, a British art pottery manufacturer, in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1913.Read More →

Selwyn Image (1849- 1930) British Priest, Artist, Designer

On: July 20, 2022

Tagged: british, british artist, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧

In 1873, Image was ordained a priest in the Church of England. From 1882, he was associated with A.H. Mackmurdo in forming the Century Guild and designed the first issue (1884) of the Guild’s publication, The Hobby Horse. Read More →

Unit One avant-garde 🇬🇧 group of architects, designers, 🎨 artists

On: July 19, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, design group, designers

Unit One was a British avant-garde community of architects and fine artists were created by designer, artist, and teacher Paul Nash to encourage Modernism in art and architecture in England. Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Ben Nicholson were among the group’s most prominent members, as were the architects’ Wells Coates and Colin Lucas. Read More →

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