Old Hall Campden Hot Milk Jug
DesignerDesigned by
Robert Welch
(Hereford, England, 1929 - 2000)
Date1957
Object NameJug
Mediumstainless steel and teak
ClassificationsApplied Art
DimensionsOverall (Height x Width x Depth): 187 × 203 × 136mm
Base (Diameter): 98mm
Base (Diameter): 98mm
AcquisitionPurchased in 2011.
Copyright© Robert Welch
LocationOn Display - Gallery 06
Object numberABDAG011399
About MeWelch was born in Hereford and brought up in Malvern, Worcestershire. He was educated at Hanley Castle Grammar School and while at school he briefly played cricket for the Second XI of Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He then served in the Royal Air Force for his National Service. He trained as a silversmith at Birmingham School of Art, where he met and later married a fellow student, Patricia Hinksman. He then went on to study at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1952.Welch was enrolled in the silversmithing school under a famous professor, Robert Goodden. The jewellers and silversmiths who emerged from this department brought about a remarkable mid-20th century renaissance of British metalwork design.
As a student, Robert Welch made two extended visits to Scandinavia, studying design in Stockholm and working with the silversmith Theodor Olsen in Bergen. The experience made a great impression. Of the British designers of his generation, Welch was the most clearly influenced by Scandinavia in his functional precision, his love of the clean line. He was especially excited by his discovery of Scandinavian modern stainless steel, as developed in neutral Sweden in the war years by the Gense factory. He began to see it as his mission to design an equivalent modern British range of stainless steel.
Scandinavian modernism made a huge impression on Welch, giving him a love of functional precision and the clean line.
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In terms of the functional precision and clean lines of his work, Welch was clearly influenced by two extended visits to Scandinavia.
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