Designer · Great Britain · 1892–1980
Gordon Russell
Gordon Russell (1892–1980) – British designer and furniture maker; chair of Utility Furniture Design Panel (1943), director of Council of Industrial Design.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1892–1980
- Country
- Great Britain
Gordon Russell was born on 20 May 1892 in Cricklewood, London, and died in 1980. He attended school in Chipping Campden, where he came into contact with Gimson’s circle. His company operated in Broadway (Lygon Arms, from 1904); in 1925 it won a gold medal in Paris, opened a shop in London in 1929, and a Park Royal factory in 1935.
In 1943 he became head of the Utility Furniture Design Panel. From 1944 he sat on the Council of Industrial Design, and from 1947 served as its director. He took part in preparing the Britain Can Make It exhibition (1946) and the Festival of Britain (1951, Royal Pavilion), and in 1948 sat on the jury for MoMA’s competition for inexpensive furniture.
He received the title Royal Designer for Industry (1940), the CBE (1947), a knighthood (1955), and the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (1962). He wrote the books “Looking at Furniture” (1964) and “Designer’s Trade” (1968). Since 2008, the Gordon Russell Design Museum has operated in Broadway.
