David Mellor: Design - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1851496033 ISBN 13: 9781851496037

Casa editrice: Acc Art Books, 2009

Riassunto

David Mellor (1930-2009) was one of the most significant British designers of the twentieth century. Growing up in Sheffield, 'the city of steel', Mellor is best known for his cutlery designs. Referring to himself as an 'instinctive modernist', his designs, especially public commissions, modernised the post-war British landscape. Within a few years of his graduation in 1953 he was producing cutlery, street furniture, altar silver, tools and typewriters; he even created the modern traffic light. His work as a retailer helped introduce the highest professioual design standards into our equipment for cooking with and eating with. It followed the trail led by Elizabeth David, introducing Continental cuisine to the country, a development that today seems so natural. Consistently beautiful, Mellor's work was sometimes radical: aesthetically, materially and socially. Accolades and prizes abound his career but it is Mellor's ingenuity and integrity over five decades of making that mark him out as a hero of post-war design.
This concise, informative and illustrated book seeks to deliver Mellor's work to a larger audience and bring more awareness of his wide reaching and continuing influence.

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"David Mellor: Design" is an introduction to the designer, his works and his importance within the British design landscape, post 1950. The wider world knows him for his cutlery, which although exquisite and important, is the tip of the iceberg. To see Mellor as 'just' a cutlery designer is to miss his depth: his love of public projects, street furniture or Church commissions. But then to see Mellor as 'just' a designer is to miss his influence as a patron of architecture, or his passion for retailing and promoting British crafts. He may be the 'King of cutlery' but that is just the beginning. David Mellor began his career at the RCA, developing sophisticated yet simple aesthetics which he displayed through his silver smithing. His cutlery continued in the Sheffield tradition whilst using some technologically advanced manufacturing methods and radically modern designs. He also designed public street furniture in the 50s and 60s which pulled Britain's streets into the modern era. During the late 1960s he opened a shop in Sloane Square, London. His work as a retailer helped introduce the highest professional design standards into our equipment for cooking with and eating with. It followed the trail led by Elizabeth David, introducing continental cuisine to the country, a development that today seems so natural. Beautifully and comprehensively illustrated, this book opens up the wonderful work of David Mellor to a wider audience. The "Design" series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: 'A series of books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are superb.'

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• Editore: Acc Art Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1851496033
• ISBN 13: 9781851496037
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 95