Corin Mellor (born 17 December 1966) is a designer specializing in silverware,

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and furniture. Son of the biographer

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and the cutlery designer

David Mellor David John Mellor (born 12 March 1949) is a British broadcaster, barrister, and former politician. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–92) and ...

, he succeeded his father on his retirement in 2002 as creative director of the family-owned manufacturing and retailing company David Mellor Design.

Early life and training

Mellor was born in

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and trained in product design at

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. He worked for the London architects Yorke Rosenberg and Mardall before joining his father in the family design firm.

David Mellor shops and Design Museum

Mellor has been involved in the David Mellor shops, the first of which opened in

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in 1969. He has responsibility for the design of the interior and the product selection, and has designed various items. Mellor also designed the interior of the David Mellor Design Museum in Hathersage, Derbyshire, working closely with the architect Michael Hopkins. The museum won a Countryside Award for its design excellence in 2007. In 2012 his plywood furniture was awarded the Design Guild Mark from The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers.

Special commissions

His earliest design commissions were for furniture. Mellor’s public seating can be seen at

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Gallery in

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, the

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Galleries and

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, Sheffield. He has recently completed a

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bench in

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and

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for the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth. In 2008 Mellor was commissioned to make a large scale

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for

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, a piece of metalwork comprising a mass of vertical rods in

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. From this developed a series of stainless steel

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for domestic interiors using the same structure. These pieces were shortlisted for the Blueprint Design Award 2008. An

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of Corin Mellor’s decorative metalwork was held at the

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in 2009. His latest architectural metalwork commission is a sculptural bridge link for the new Sheffield city centre building for

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. Recent silversmithing commissions include silver bowls for The Prince of Wales and for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee candles for Sheffield Cathedral's Royal Maundy Service.

Family

He is married to the photographer Helen Mellor and they have two children. In April 2009 ''

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'' newspaper described them as 'the first family of design'. Corin’s mother was the biographer and critic

. His sister, Clare Mellor, runs her own

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firm.

Public appointments

Mellor is a member of the board of

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. He is a freeman of the

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and a freeman of the

Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire is a trade guild of metalworkers based in Sheffield, England. It was incorporated in 1624 by an Act of Parliament. The head is called the Master Cutler. Its motto is french: 1=Pour Y Parvenir a Bonne Foi, ...

. In 2013 he was made a guardian of the

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and was also given an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.

References

External links

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