Kenneth Grange: Designing the Modern World
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- The definitive celebration of Sir Kenneth Grange (b. 1929), one of the most revered, innovative and influential industrial designers of the modern age.
- His work has touched the lives of almost every consumer worldwide and has had a lasting influence on today’s younger designers.
- For decades, Grange’s iconic products – including the InterCity 125 train for British Rail, the TX1 London black taxi, domestic appliances for Kenwood, lighting for Anglepoise, cameras for Kodak, pens for Parker and post boxes for Royal Mail, among many others – have been at the centre of taste-making: key to the establishment of Britain’s worldwide post-war reputation as a hub of design excellence.
- Based on a series of in-depth discussions between Grange and design specialist Lucy Johnston, and her exclusive access to his extensive archive, this illuminating book explores Grange’s biography and work as seen through his eyes, illustrated with sketches, letters, scale models and photographs.
- The story is set in its social, political and creative context, introducing the figures who have inspired, commissioned and worked alongside Grange as his designs transformed Britain and the world and helped to shape our modern-day consumer culture.
- Hardback, 24 x 30 cm, 320 pages.
