All Things Considered

David Mellor
Posted by Simon Lewin

Best known for his classic cutlery (and not, perhaps, for his traffic light re-design), designer David Mellor passed away on 7th May 2009.

"David Mellor, who has died aged 78, was the outstanding British flatware designer of the last century and a remarkable man who, with integrity and consistency, ran a workshop which produced superb cutlery for more than 50 years.

Mellor, a handsome, bluff, meticulous, self-effacing, but determined Yorkshireman, understood, and insisted upon, the essential relationship between making things and designing them. He thought of much that masquerades as modern "design" in the words William Boyd used to describe modern art: 'A wet fart of faddery and flim-flam.'"

Read the Guardian obituary in full or visit the David Mellor website for further information.

Posted by Simon Lewin on May 11th, 2009