DAVID MELLOR Mail Order Catalogue 2019 –20 David Mellor silver 9 David Mellor cutlery 11 David Mellor furniture 22 David Mellor trays 23 David Mellor candleholders 24 Table glass 26 Decorative glass 34 Table pottery 36 Craft pottery, wood, baskets, horn 52 French porcelain 63 Kitchen pottery 64 Table mats and table linen 66 Table trivets 69 Special tableware 70 Bar equipment 74 Salt, pepper and spice grinders 76 Tea and coffee makingequipment 78 Knife blocks and knife sets 84 David Mellor kitchen knives 86 Knife sharpeners 92 Choppingboardsandchoppers 93 Pans 96 Specialist cooking 108 Kitchen tools 110 Kitchen equipment 119 Pastry making equipment 124 Baking tins and moulds 126 Kitchen storage 129 David Mellor textiles 132 David Mellor gifts/gift wrap 134 Wedding List service 136 Index 137 Customer information 139 ‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.’ William Morris The Round Building Factory This is the latest fully comprehensive The Round Building at Hathersage catalogue from David Mellor. It collects The purpose built cutlery factory designed together our whole extensive range for David Mellor by Sir Michael Hopkins of sophisticated modern tableware has been described as a minor and kitchenware, including the world masterpiece of modern architecture. famous David Mellor Cutlery. Built in local gritstone with a spectacular Our products are made in our own stainless steel roof, this highly functional factory or carefully selected from the industrial building is set discreetly in a rural area of outstanding natural beauty. best specialist manufacturers. Many The Round Building has received many are exclusive to the David Mellor important architectural and environmental shops. We are convinced they awards. represent good value in terms of Factory tours on Saturdays and design, style and quality. Sundays give visitors an insight into how David Mellor cutlery is made. The new cutlery showroom at the The David Mellor Country Shop David Mellor Country Shop in Hathersage 4 INSERT IMAGE OF MBN EXTERNAL FROM P6 DAVID MELLOR David Mellor (1930-2009) was one of the most famous of 20th century designers. He was born in Sheffield and trained originally as a silversmith. In the course of his hugely distinguished career he designed a David Mellor Marylebone great variety of products including the national traffic light system. David David Mellor Marylebone recently introduced a new edition of David Mellor is best known for his cutlery Our latest shop at 14 New Cavendish Mellor’s classic ‘Pride’ carving set and new which won numerous design awards Street off Marylebone High Street is the ‘Embassy’ glassware. and which is in many international largest David Mellor shop to date, giving We have built up close links with many collections. The David Mellor Design us new scope for displaying the unique small workshop producers. Our shops Museum at Hathersage in Derbyshire David Mellor collection of tableware and draw their special character from the shows the whole historic spectrum kitchenware. fine collection of British crafts, products of his work. The atmospheric Arts & Crafts building handmade in often local natural materials. has a special architectural quality, having We ourselves continue making cutlery and opened as a dairy in 1901. It is now a knives at a time when British craft-based Historic England listed building. Our careful manufacturing is undergoing a revival. restoration brings out the craftsmanship of the fine period detailing: woodwork, Personal service carved lettering, decorative stonework. We pride ourselves on our staff expertise, built up over the years. Because we are The design of the interior by Corin Mellor manufacturers as well as retailers we can includes a spectacular new staircase draw on unique resources of technical assembled in our own factory in knowledge and we are always glad to Derbyshire. answer your specific queries either in the David Mellor Country Shop shops, by email or over the phone. CORIN MELLOR Our Country Shop is at Hathersage in A wedding list service is available at Succeeded his father as Creative Derbyshire, near Chatsworth, in the David Mellor shops and our expert staff dramatic High Peak landscape. Although will give you all the help you need in Director of David Mellor Design in the stock is more or less identical this compiling your ideal personal list. 2006. He is responsible for product development within the company, shop has a more rural feel than the David For details of our gift voucher and gift expanding our unique and well-known Mellor London shops. A new showroom wrap services see page 135. displays the superb modern cutlery and collection of specialist tableware and knives made in the Round Building factory kitchenware. alongside the shop. Corin trained in product design and The David Mellor Design Museum opened The Marylebone shop interior architecture. He designed the interior in 2006 in a purpose designed Michael of the Design Museum and Café at Hopkins building. The Museum, Country Hathersage. Recent special commissions Shop and Café provide a stimulating day include spectacular metalwork for out in Derbyshire in a beautiful, unusual Sheffield Cathedral. A large scale design environment. For further information sculptural seat for the gardens at on the Design Museum see page 8. Chatsworth was commissioned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. A Special products 25-foot bridge was commissioned for We run our own design office within Sheffield Hallam University and Corin the company and so the David Mellor recently appeared on several TV films on collection is constantly evolving. We have British design and craftsmanship. 5 DAVID MELLOR SLOANE SQUARE 50 years of David Mellor Sloane Square The first and most famous David Mellor shop opened on 7 October 1969. Originally called ‘David Mellor Ironmonger’, the shop celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – an increasingly rare milestone in British retail. The young David Mellor was at the time already one of the best-known designers of his generation, having recently redesigned the UK’s traffic lights. Inspired by the eclectic Ironmonger shops of his Sheffield childhood, Mellor’s vision was to open a shop stocking ‘the most carefully-chosen tools in London’. David Mellor Sloane Square soon became a focal point of Swinging Sixties Top: David Mellor Chelsea. Janet Street-Porter wrote in Sloane Square the Daily Mail that David Mellor ‘does for scrubbing brushes and kitchen Left: David Mellor in equipment what the uplift bra did for his Sheffield workshop, 1960s Brigitte Bardot’. Regular customers from the start included royalty, top chefs Bottom right: and Hollywood stars. Jackie Kennedy David Mellor Ironmonger Onassis came to make a purchase, served by David himself who failed to recognise the then most famous woman in the world. Over the years the selection has gradually been expanded and refined. We now have one of the most impressive collections of kitchen and tableware to be found on the international scene. 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Rosewood cutlery To celebrate the anniversary David Mellor has produced a limited, numbered edition of ‘Provençal’ Rosewood cutlery, a design only available in the early years of the Sloane Square shop. Each piece of this highly collectable 50th anniversary edition has been expertly handmade using sustainably sourced rosewood. Only 300 place settings of ‘Provençal’ Rosewood have been produced with each item individually edition marked. To order visit or call our shops. Six-piece Place Setting £125. 6 davidmellordesign.co.uk DAVID MELLOR SPECIAL PRODUCTS ‘Pride’ Cutlery David Mellor’s mid-century modern cutlery, first designed in 1953, is now in numerous international collections. We have just added a new Butter Knife, Cake Fork and Fruit Spoon in silver plate or mirror-polished stainless steel. For full details see page 12. ‘Pride’ Carving Set New edition of David Mellor’s famous ‘Pride’ carving set of 1956. Expertly hand finished with ivory coloured handles. Super-sharp high carbon stainless steel blade. Comes in solid ash case with hinged lid and clasp. For full details see page 84. ‘Embassy’ Glassware Latest additions to Corin Mellor’s ‘Embassy’ glassware. These beautiful glasses are hand blown in lead free crystal. Left to right, new Decanter with anodized matt black stopper; generous Gin Glass, 45cl; Tall Tumbler, 33cl. For full details see page 26. ‘Pride’ Tea Set The now classic ‘Pride’ tea set was designed by David Mellor in 1958 and manufactured by Walker & Hall, Sheffield, both in silver and in silver plate. We sometimes manage to acquire examples of this much sought-after vintage set. After restoration in our own workshops ‘Pride’ silver plate tea sets cost around £500-£900. For availability enquire at our shops. to order call 01433 650220 7 NEWDESIGN PRODUCTS MUSEUM The Mellor collection at Hathersage, Derbyshire The Design Museum, like the Round Building, has been purpose designed by the architect Sir Michael Hopkins. It shows the whole historic collection, privately owned by the Mellor family, of David Mellor’s designs from the 1950s onwards and includes more recent work of his son, Corin Mellor. The designs on display cover a broad spectrum, from teaspoons to traffic lights. The architecture of the Museum building has received a Countryside Award. Pillar box for the Post Office, 1966 Embassy silver tea pot, 1969 Tubular steel seating, 1973 The David Mellor Design Museum Cutlers’ Company bowl, 1973 David Mellor, one of the best known 20th century British designers, was born in Sheffield in 1930 and died in 2009. His expertise as a cutlery designer developed to the extent that he has often been called ‘the cutlery king’. His great sequence of cutlery designs, from 1953 onwards, takes up a central area of the museum and might almost be regarded as a history of modern cutlery design.