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It’s perhaps less well known that Prince Philip had a keen interest in good design. He founded the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for Elegant Design in 1959. The first winner was Charles Longman's Prestcold Packaway refrigerator for the Pressed Steel Company #RIPPrincePhilip
Winners of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Elegant design included electrical appliances, furniture, textiles, jewellery, tableware, toys and transport. Here are some of my favourites. Firstly, Eric Marshall's 1961 Rio transistor radio for Ultra Radio & Television
Kenneth Grange won the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Elegant Design in 1963 for his Milward Courier cordless shaver for Henry Milward & Sons. Innovative and the very epitome of elegance, like many of Grange's designs, but it was a commercial failure due to inadequate marketing
I'd most like to own Andrew Grima's brooch for HJ Co, which won the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Elegant Design in 1966
David Harman Powell's brightly coloured stacking Nova tableware for Ecko Plastics won the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Elegant Design in 1968. Originally designed for use on the home, many used it for picnics. This example is from
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From the late 1960s the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Elegant Design increasingly embraced new technology and engineering. 1969's winner was Jack Howe's MD2 cash dispenser for Chubb Ltd
The 1970 Duke of Edinburgh Award for Elegant Design went to Patrick Rylands for a range of toys for Trendon Ltd. Who remembers Playplax?
The first women honoured in the Duke of Edinburgh Award for Elegant Design were Susan Collier & Susan Campbell (Collier Campbell) for their Six Views furnishing fabric for Fischbacher in 1984. You can read more about them here is this blog by @liztregenza https://alivintagefabric.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/collier-campbell-designs/
In 1990 the Duke of Edinburgh Award for Elegant Design was renamed the Prince Philip Designers Prize and continued until 2011. Its 20 male winners ended with Quentin Blake, the only illustrator to be awarded the prize. Kenneth Grange won in 2001, the only double award winner.
@BBCFrontRow you talked about Prince Philip & the arts but omitted the Duke of Edinburgh Award for Elegant Design that I’ve covered in this thread
