{"title":"David Mellor","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;David Mellor was born in Sheffield in 1930, trained as a silversmith, and spent the next fifty years proving that good design belongs on every table. He designed cutlery for the Prime Minister's dining room at 10 Downing Street and for hospital canteens in the same decade — convinced that a designer's responsibility ran from the first sketch to the moment an object reached the person who would use it. That same rigour extended to the UK's national traffic light system, still in use today, and to bus shelters, street lamps, and public seating. In 1990 he opened his purpose-built factory, the Round Building, on the circular foundations of a disused Victorian gasworks in the Derbyshire village of Hathersage, where every piece of David Mellor cutlery is still made by hand. Terence Conran called him Britain's greatest postwar product designer. His son Corin, who trained alongside him, is now Creative Director — the same building, the same values, the same insistence that even a teaspoon is worth getting exactly right.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/shopwentworth.com\/collections\/david-mellor.oembed","provider":"Shopwentworth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}