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Gordon Russell (designer)

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as chairman of the government's Utility Furniture Design Panel. In 1943 he became chairman of the Utility Design Panel. In 1947 Russell became director of the Council of Industrial Design (COID) (later renamed the
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Gordon Russell was born in Cricklewood, London to Sydney Bolton Russell and Elizabeth Russell (née Shefford). His father was a clerk in a bank but was later offered a job by
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and the terracotta remains in the collection of the family. A Bronze is in the collection of the Gordon Russell Design Museum in
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in Burton-on-Trent, the brewers. The family moved to live in Repton. When Gordon was twelve years old his father bought the
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for a portrait in clay. The correspondence file relating to the Russell portrait bust is held in the archive of the
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in Broadway Worcestershire and the family moved again to live in the hotel. Gordon went to the
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in 1918, he became a furniture maker and designer. In 1925 Russell won a gold medal at the
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Designer's Trade An Autobiography, Gordon Russell, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1968
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at the nearby town of Chipping Campden (or just Campden as it was known then).
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A dressing table designed by the Utility Design Panel c. 1943. Made by
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in 1927, and was elected as Master in 1962. He was a member of the
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Fiona MacCarthy, "Russell, Sir (Sydney) Gordon (1892–1980)",
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in 1955 for services to design. Russell was elected to the
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In 1921 Russell married Toni Denning. In 1925 he bought a
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Gordon Russell portrait at the National Portrait Gallery
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The Gordon Russell Museum, Broadway, Worcestershire
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Heal & Son
CBE
MC
RDI
FSIA
George Allsopp
Lygon Arms Inn
Grammar School
Arts and Crafts movement
Broadway
Cotswolds
Guild of Handicraft
C. R. Ashbee
Chipping Campden
World War I
Military Cross
Paris Exhibition
boxwood
ebony
laburnum
World War II
utility furniture
Design Council
Crafts Council
knighthood
Art Workers' Guild
Red Rose Guild
Alan Thornhill
Henry Moore Foundation

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