"David Mellor (1930-2009) was one of the most significant British designers of the twentieth century. Growing up in Sheffield, 'the city of steel', Mellor is best known for his cutlery designs. Referring to himself as an 'instinctive modernist', his designs, especially public commissions, modernised the post-war British landscape. Within a few years of his graduation in 1953 he was producing cutlery, street furniture, altar silver, tools and typewriters; he even created the modern traffic light. His work as a retailer helped introduce the highest professioual design standards into our equipment for cooking with and eating with. It followed the trail led by Elizabeth David, introducing Continental cuisine to the country, a development that today seems so natural. Consistently beautiful, Mellor's work was sometimes radical: aesthetically, materially and socially. Accolades and prizes abound his career but it is Mellor's ingenuity and integrity over five decades of making that mark him out as a hero of post-war design." "This concise, informative and illustrated book seeks to deliver Mellor's work to a larger audience and bring more awareness of his wide reaching and continuing influence."--BOOK JACKET.