Robert Gordon

When Robert Welch left the Royal College of Art in 1955, he set up with just his drawing board and a camp bed in a little rented room in a disused workshop in the 18th century Silk Mill at Chipping Campden in the English Cotswold Hills.It was an inauspicious start for a man whose strong design principles would make him an MBE and a Royal Designer for Industry.From the start, Robert was passionately driven to design highly functional, affordable products which possessed a timeless elegant beauty. He demonstrated this with his first major success – pioneering the introduction of stainless steel cutlery to the UK.He steadily gained a reputation for excellence in both design and manufacture which lead to a constant stream of commissions – both commercial and privately from celebrities and royalty.