Public Work and Honours
Mellor was the youngest Royal Designer for Industry, elected in 1962 at the age of 32. In the early 1980s he chaired the wide-ranging Design Council Committee of Inquiry into standards of design in Consumer Goods in Britain. He has been Chairman of the Crafts Council and a trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield, De Montfort University, Sheffield Hallam University, Loughborough University and the Royal College of Art. In 1981 he was appointed OBE, and CBE in 2001.
A large-scale retrospective exhibition "David Mellor Master Metalworker" was held at the Design Museum, London, in 1996. The recent opening of the permanent David Mellor Design Museum, in a new Hopkins building alongside the cutlery factory at Hathersage, allows the public to view his 50-year career.
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