There is a great interview with Kenneth Grange in the latest issue of Monocle. Here are a couple of choice quotes:'When you have companies buying the best equipment and tools to make things as good as they can be made then you get the finest partners for designers to work with. When these things don't exist, when cost and quantity become more important than quality, as has happened in Britain, then designers look elsewhere for partners and the industry falls to pieces.'
'One of the biggest rewards as a designer is knowing how to make something. If I were Chancellor I would give big tax incentives to small firms providing a fantastic service or making something beautifully. In 10 years this would create a platform of makers again.'
We could not agree more.
The Design Museum in Bermondsey, SE1, will hold a retrospective of Grange's work this summer.
Image from Monocle
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