David Coveney – Design Week

Remembering Sir Kenneth Grange – 1929-2024

David Coveney — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:21:23 +0000

Although we are not currently publishing, we felt it necessary to delve into our archives and celebrate his life and work as reflected in Design Week over the years. Publisher David Coveney looks back at Grange’s genius for everyday design. Growing up in England, I fondly remember using many of Kenneth Grange’s designs. My grandmother’s Morphy Richards iron, my school homework done with prized…

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Design Week is resting, and we’ll be back soon

David Coveney — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:09:23 +0000

Dear readers, Many of you were disappointed when it was announced that Design Week would be closing at the beginning of 2024. We were too! As the developers of the site, we just didn’t feel wild about getting the job of decommissioning the site. During a chat about the closure, a joking comment about making an offer quickly turned serious. We soon asked, “Could you put us in touch with the right…

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Intimate classics

David Coveney — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Design likes its heroes, and hyperbole is often casually flung around. But in the case of Kenneth Grange, the octogenarian industrial designer whose work is about to be celebrated in a show opening at London’s Design Museum next month, there does truly seem to be some justification. Almost everybody will have directly encountered Grange’s seminal designs from the 1950s to today…

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