{"id":2084,"date":"2016-09-30T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2016-09-30T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:29:49","slug":"david-mellor-design-masters-mid-century-tableware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/styles\/retro\/david-mellor-design-masters-mid-century-tableware\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mellor Design: masters of mid-century tableware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the heart of the Peak District is the David Mellor Design<\/em><\/strong> Museum and factory. Situated near the stunning Hope Valley, this architectural idyll is far from what you\u2019d imagine a metalwork factory to look like. But when you understand a little more about David Mellor Design, the beautiful working environment begins to make sense.<\/p>\n

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The ethos of the company is that \u2018well designed equipment can improve your life\u2019 and this has run through each one of their products since the company first produced steel cutlery in the 1950s. It has also been applied to the place where they are manufactured. The unusual circular factory building was designed in 1990 by David Mellor\u2019s close friend, the architect Michael Hopkins, and is constructed of a circular stone wall, mirroring an old gas cylinder whose foundations the building sits on. Over the structure sits an ingenious cantilevered roof, which gracefully covers the open-plan space, allowing the circular building to exist without internal walls and partitions. It\u2019s here that we meet the small team of highly skilled metal workers and their immaculate machinery, much of which David Mellor invested in at the start of his career.<\/p>\n

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The David Mellor factory is made from local stone that sits quietly in the rural surroundings, near the stone house he built on the site, now home to his son Corin, himself a renowned designer and the person charged with leading the company into the future. The factory shop, Design Museum and caf\u00e9 on the site constitute something of a mecca for fans of David Mellor\u2019s work and British mid-century design. The displays illustrate the diversity of David Mellor\u2019s work, covering both industrial and domestic product design. As well as cutlery, some of David Mellor\u2019s earliest designs were one-offs. Two such examples are the silver candelabra that were commissioned by the City of Sheffield and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in the early 1960s. These traditional items have been given a contemporary twist that combines both majesty and modernism in a surprisingly striking way.<\/p>\n

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Although the David Mellor brand is perhaps best known for its cutlery, candle holders are still an important part of the collection. In addition to the stunning silver Embassy candle holder of 1963, still in production today, there are two designs available at a more accessible price point. Corin Mellor\u2019s beautiful Linear Spun candlesticks in stainless steel, and the quirky Serpentine candle holders in cast-iron, which were one of the most popular David Mellor designs from 1972.<\/p>\n

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In 2011 Corin came up with the design for the elegant Linear Spun candlesticks, \u201cCandleholders have recently become increasingly popular again. We wanted a new design that would fit alongside our cast-iron candleholders and silver Embassy candlesticks, but in the material we\u2019re most renowned for: stainless steel\u201d. The name Linear Spun hints at how they\u2019re manufactured. The candleholders are spun from discs of sheet stainless steel on a lathe to create the three dimensional flowing form. They are then hand-polished to a beautiful satin finish.<\/p>\n

During our visit to the David Mellor factory, I came to appreciate the full extent to which this man\u2019s work has become an intrinsic pat of our design pedigree in the UK. His designs are aimed at enhancing our lives both practically and aesthetically, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the stalwarts of the David Mellor range, its cutlery and candle holders.<\/p>\n

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Source: midcenturymagazine<\/a>
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